num_pages: 413
description: Elizabeth Strout's remarkably assured debut novel, Amy and Isabelle, is an exquisitely nuanced exploration of the complex relationship between a single mother and her teenage daughter. Shy, sensitive Amy Goodrow leads a cloistered existence with her mother, Isabelle, in a small New England mill town. For years, Isabelle has stoically endured the emotional emptiness of her life and unfulfilling secretarial job, secure in the knowledge that "her real life would happen somewhere else." But when Amy falls in love with her high school math teacher and crosses the line between adolescent fantasy and disturbing reality, she releases Isabelle's intense shame about her own past and opens an unbridgeable distance between them.
language: German
title: Amy & Isabelle
titlecomplete: Amy & Isabelle
genres: Adult, Adult Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary, Novels, Family, Audiobook, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 26824
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
publisher: Piper