Amy and Isabelle

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