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. But when Amy is discovered behind the steamed-up windows of a car with her math teacher, the vast and icy distance between mother and daughter becomes apparently unbridgeable. In this stunning novel, Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
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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. But when Amy is discovered behind the steamed-up windows of a car with her math teacher, the vast and icy distance between mother and daughter becomes apparently unbridgeable. In this stunning novel, Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
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I think it would make a great book for a book club. There is so much material for discussion. I thoroughly enjoyed this book
BibiophileBarb
Nov 19, 2009
Can't believe this book won awards
I finally just put this book down when I was near the last quarter of it. It was tiresome, and going nowhere. It beats the relationship between mother and daughter to death, and just wouldn't let it go. I felt no affinity to either woman. The book was a tiresome, nonstop bore.
Bolingbrookbookie
Aug 24, 2009
Not her best, but very good
Elizabeth Strout has become one of my favorite writers. Her last book, Olive Kitteridge won the Nobel Prize for fiction. Isabelle & Amy takes an honest look at a mother daughter relationship of a "single mom." Strout expresses herself beautifully and has a good sense of humor. THis book will make you laugh and make you cry. I always find that at least one of her characters is someone I know.And others I want to know.
Selina
Oct 13, 2007
Sweet natured
This book explores the problems between mother and daughter. Isabelle is shy and lonely, haunted by her past mistakes. She tells everyone that she is a widow when in fact she was never married. She keeps to herself, concerned with only making a comfortable life for her and her daughters. She eventually makes friends, changing her life for the better.
Amy, the daughter, also makes a friend. Unfortunately its with an older teacher. Isabelle does not want Amy to make the same mistakes as she has done. This book does well fleshing out the character of mother and daughter.
