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Nationwide BestsellerIn her spectacular first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes an adolescent's alienation from her remote mother—and a parent's anger at the discovery of her daughter's sexual strategies. In many methods, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old child, a mix of love and loathing traded within their every look. And eating, sleeping, and working alongside within the news-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls does not aid issues. Nevertheless when Amy is found behind the steamed-up windows of the vehicle with her math tutor, the huge and icy distance between mother and child becomes unbridgeable.As information of the scandal reaches every ear, it's Isabelle who is suffering from the severe view of Shirley Falls, accelerating her disgrace about her own secret past.