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With compassion, laughter, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her girl. Amy Goodrow, a timid high school college student in a small mill town, falls deeply in love with her math tutor, and along they mix the lines between understandable dream and disturbing fact. When found out, this mental and physical trespass brings disgrace to Amy's mother, Isabelle, and intensifies the pity she feels about her own recent. Within a fury, she lashes out at her daughter's beauty and then retreats into outraged silence. Amy withdraws, too, and mother and girl eat, sleep, and even work side by side but continue to be at a vast, relatively unbridgeable distance from each other. This discord is encircled by other large and small dramas in the town of Shirley Falls: a teenage motherhood, a UFO sighting, a absent child, and the studies of Excess fat Bev, the community's enormous (and enormously funny and compassionate) peacemaker and amateur medical specialist. Keeping Isabelle and Amy as the main emphasis of her sharp, sympathetic vision, Elizabeth Strout attends to all of them. As she does so, she discloses not only her deep affection on her behalf heroes, both serious and comic, but her profound wisdom about the real human condition in general. She makes us care about these extraordinary common people and makes us expect that they will find a way out of these often self-imposed mental exile.
