Amy and Isabelle (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375705199)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.

"A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life."--Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author

Before there was Olive Kitteridge, there was Amy and Isabelle...

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--a location fans of Strout will recognize from her critically acclaimed novel, The Burgess Boys--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 this powerful first novel by the author who brought Olive Kitteridge to millions of readers.

Author: Elizabeth Strout
ISBN-10: 0375705198
ISBN-13: 9780375705199
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2000
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.15w x 0.73d

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

Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/13/2000 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1999 pg. 47