Amy i Isabelle
The novel is set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls and follows the close relationship between Isabella and her teenage daughter Amy.
Isabelle is a very ordinary mother, and Amy is her ordinary sixteen-year-old daughter. And Shirley Falls is an ordinary town. And Mr. Robertson a regular math teacher. But what is hidden inside? "It was terribly hot that summer when Mr. Robertson left town." But for Amy Goodrow and her mother Isabelle, the heat is the least of their problems. (Just like the sulphurous smell of the river, just like the wilted vegetables, just like the two UFOs allegedly seen in the glowing sky above Shirley Falls.) Amy and Isabelle suffer from slightly more personal woes. From the moment she was caught entwined with her math teacher behind a fogged-up car window, a chasm opened between sixteen-year-old Amy and her mother that neither would be able to cross. Contempt and anger, misunderstanding and mistrust, all that we know so well, but also something darker, deeper - because even mothers have their secrets. Masterfully describing relationships, creeping beneath the surface of what we call ordinary life, Elizabeth Strout has written a powerful and profound book in which nothing is ordinary, and everything is so important and so familiar - because it is about us.
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