{"product_id":"amy-and-isabelle-a-novel","title":"Amy and Isabelle A novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOlive Kitteridge \u003c\/i\u003eevokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's secrets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore there was \u003ci\u003eOlive Kitteridge\u003c\/i\u003e, there was \u003ci\u003eAmy and Isabelle\u003c\/i\u003e…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. That they eat, sleep, and work side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls—a location fans of Strout will recognize from her critically acclaimed novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Burgess Boys\u003c\/i\u003e—only increases the tension. And just when it appears things can't get any worse, Amy's sexuality begins to unfold, causing a vast and icy rift between mother and daughter that will remain unbridgeable unless Isabelle examines her own secretive and shameful past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Reader's Guide is included in this powerful first novel by the author who brought \u003ci\u003eOlive Kitteridge\u003c\/i\u003e to millions of readers.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55711810814025,"sku":null,"price":12.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0956\/5336\/3785\/files\/20733403482321.jpg?v=1780088752","url":"https:\/\/morebetterbooks.com\/products\/amy-and-isabelle-a-novel","provider":"More Better Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}