Amy and Isabelle

Críticas

Strout's insights into the complex psychology between [mother and daughter] result in a poignant tale about two coming of age.

-- "Time"

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.

-- "New York Times Book Review"

An expansiveness and inventiveness that is the mark of a true storyteller.

-- "Philadelphia Inquirer"

[A] portrait of people coming to terms with their lives, finding unsuspected nobility in themselves and unexpected kindness in others along the way. Elizabeth Strout has written a gem of a novel.

-- "Amazon.com, editorial review"

Strout demonstrates exceptional poise, and an uncommon ability to render complex emotions with clarity and a sympathetic intelligence, evoking comparisons with the work of Alice Munro and Anne Tyler.

-- "Kirkus Reviews"

This is a beautifully written novel with characters so real that readers will miss them at the book's resolute ending. Their interactions are riveting.

-- "Library Journal"

An exquisitely nuanced exploration of the complex relationship between a single mother and her teenage daughter.

-- "Barnes & Noble, editorial review"

Reseña del editor

In 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. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her sixteen-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. And eating, sleeping, and working side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls doesn't help matters. 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 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.

Witty and often profound, Amy and Isabelle confirms Elizabeth Strout as a powerful new talent.