Amy and Isabelle Lib/E (Audiobook)

from Fullmoonblue

[Amy and Isabelle] by Elizabeth Strout I'd never read a thing by her before, and picked this up by chance. Something about the setting called to mind Joyce Carol Oates, and so too did the promise of sexual tension between a young woman (Amy) and her teacher (Mr. Robertson). It had me expecting so...

from brenzi

A wonderful mother-daughter relationship story that brings in lots of outside characters which the author deftly develops. You really get to know these people. Mother Isabelle is a single mother bringing up daughter Amy in a New England mill town in the 60's. Amy is Isabelle's life and when she g...

from lauralkeet

Wow, that was one intense and emotional read. In Amy and Isabelle, a mother (Isabelle) struggles with her 16-year-old daughter Amy's emerging sexuality. Isabelle is a single parent, focused on making ends meet and doing what's right for her daughter. But she is completely unaware of Amy's true th...

from jeffome

I loved 'Olive Kitteridge' so much, that i have now gathered all of Strout's works and i am starting at the beginning. Had no idea what to expect with this, which is my preference. It definitely went places i was not anticipating - rather candid coming of age sexuality for example.....but the rem...

from TinaV95

Review copied from my Orange January thread. I finished Amy and Isabelle last night. Not sure how to describe my initial feelings other than that it took me a while to 'get into it.' I didn't really identify with either the mother or the daughter at first. Frankly, the mother annoyed me in the be...