What is the author's tone in the memoir, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me?

Over the course of Wild Game, the narrative tone evolves along with Adrienne and her growing and changing consciousness. When the author is depicting events from her life as a child, teenager, and young adult, she uses a vibrant and excitable tone. Adrienne is immersed in the world of her mother's affairs and enchantments. The language she employs in the early chapters of the memoir, therefore, are rendered with floral and lyric descriptions, which enact Adrienne's obsessive love and loyalty to her mother. As Adrienne grows up, and those around her begin questioning her relationship with her mother, however, her tone begins to shift. When she geographically distanced from Malabar, Adrienne's voice appears more clipped and closed. When she is back in contact with Malabar, she is re-submerged in her mother's world and fantasies.