Isabelle invites her boss over for dessert, but never shows up.
Stout wrote the story of the characters what was going on simultaneously, with four different setting, and four different characters. What makes the story move, and thought the writing style was good even though it was slow moving. There are three different conflicts that are put together. The last fifty pages pulls you into the story. Avery spots the car, thinks it is abandoned not realizing who is in the car. He takes Amy in her car, and they have sex down a deserted road, near Isabelle's boss's home near the woods, Mr. Johnson finally one day crosses the line of no return. She starts staying after school alot, and has feeling for her subsitute teacher, Mr. Isabelle is jealous of her daughter's looks, her youth,and her sexuality. It is the story of a shy single mom, Isabelle raising her quiet rebellious teenage daughter, Amy. One person hit it on the head, and said, the book is life. The only reason, I kept reading was because it was our March discussion. But, after awhile it was so dull and slow moving.
There are two reasons I had read, because my friend recommended it, and because our books discussion for March is Amy and Isabelle.Īt first I thought this is slow moving, but I still liked the book. That said, Amy and Isabelle is out of my comfort zone. The high school literature class would read.
This is a novel, like the Bean Tree, and One Thousand Acres that I would see as a classic. Witty and often profound, Amy and Isabelle confirms Elizabeth Strout as a powerful new talent.From the Trade Paperback edition.I heard of this novel for awhile, and it was promoted on Oprah for her book club. And as Amy seeks comfort elsewhere, she discovers the fragility of human happiness through other dramas, from the horror of a missing child to the trials of Fat Bev, the community peacemaker.
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 unbridgeable.As news of the scandal reaches every ear, it is Isabelle who suffers from the harsh judgment of Shirley Falls, intensifying her shame about her own secret past. And eating, sleeping, and working side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls doesn't help matters. 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. National BestsellerIn her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth 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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