Strout’s novels, I am anxiously awaiting her next release. Though “Amy and Isabelle” was not my favorite of Elizabeth Strout’s novels, I enjoyed certain aspects of it and appreciated the complexities of all of the personalities within this book and how each was impacted by the decisions they made. 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 motherand a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. Oh, how well Elizabeth Strout delves into the different facets of interpersonal relationships as a whole. Oh, the complicated relationship between a mother and daughter. Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Many folks in the town of Shirley Falls are keeping secrets of course, and they too suffer the consequences. Isabelle beside herself, angry and desperate.Īctions, of course, have ramifications as both Isabelle and Amy soon devise.Īmy and Isabelle are not alone. If there is a theme that unites these stories, it is the. Anything Is Possible is a wise, stunning novel. When Amy finds it, she becomes, shall we say, unfettered.Īmy, entangled with someone older, someone inappropriate, somehow who most certainly should know better.Īn awkward situation, discovered. Strout is a brilliant chronicler of the ambiguity and delicacy of the human condition. 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. Her daughter Amy longs for something more. When Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student, falls in love with her math teacher, the love affair threatens the intimate relationship between Amy and her mother, Isabelle, whose feelings are influenced by the shame of her own past. In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenagers alienation from her distant mother-and a parents rage at the discovery of her daughters sexual secrets. Isabelle Goodrow is a prim and proper woman. Elizabeth Strout’s first novel, Amy and Isabelle, is about desires, disappointments, and secrets and features a single mother, Isabelle Goodrow, and her sixteen-year-old daughter Amy.

Amy isabelle by elizabeth strout