Amy and Isabelle

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

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

Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout's bestselling and award winning debut, Amy and Isabelle--adapted for television by Oprah Winfrey-- 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--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 the paperback edition of this powerful first novel by the author who brought Olive Kitteridge to millions of readers.

Author: Elizabeth Strout
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/01/2000
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.15w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780375705199

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

About the Author
Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive, Again, an Oprah's Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, named one of the best books of the year byThe Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Orange Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.