Amy and Isabelle

Amy and IsabelleIn her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16 year old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. That they eat, sleep, and work side by side in the gossip ridden mill town of Shirley Falls only increases the

In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother--and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. That they eat, sleep, and work side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls only increases the tension. And just when it appears things can't get any worse, Amy's sexuality begins to unfold, causing a vast and icy rift between mother and daughter that will remain unbridgeable unless Isabelle examines her own secretive and shameful past.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/01/2000
ISBN: 9780375705199
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.15w x 0.73d
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Nominee
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner

Review Citations: New York Times 02/13/2000 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1999 pg. 47

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 69115 / Amy and Isabelle
Reading Level: 6.6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 19