Elizabeth Strout
Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Stroutâ€™s bestselling and award winning debut, Amy and Isabelleâ€”adapted for television by Oprah Winfreyâ€” evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant motherâ€”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 Fallsâ€”a location fans of Strout will recognize from her critically acclaimed novel, The Burgess Boysâ€”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.,A Reader's Guide is included in the paperback edition of this powerful first novel by the author who brought Olive Kitteridge to millions of readers.
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Amy and Isabelle