Amy and Isabelle

by Elizabeth Strout

3 cassettes / 4 hours
Read by Lili Taylor


With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter.

Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student in a small mill town, falls in love with her math teacher, and together they cross the line between understandable fantasy and... (read more)

Top tags: fictioncontemporary fictioncoming of agemothers and daughterssexuality (all tags)

 

Member Reviews

  • Cookie G
    • Rated 5 stars

    I enjoyed this book. Written well with some suspense and suprises.

    Cookie G wrote this review Tuesday, June 3 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • amanda r
    • Rated 2 stars

    this book was really weird, i think it tried a little too hard to be profound, i wouldn't waste my time!

    amanda r wrote this review Friday, May 2 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Linda S
    • Rated 2 stars

    I am not really sure what to say about this book. I thought it was well written, easy to read, but the content was very disturbing. When my daughter was little, I would not read books about children who were sick, killed or kidnapped. This book, about a a teenaged girl having an affair with a male teacher who is, make no mistake about it, a sexual predator, makes me feel uncomfortable. If my daughter was not a teenager in high school, would I feel differently about the book? Maybe. Except, I do not like to read any books that have men exploiting women. So, perhaps wherever I was in my life, I would have a hard time liking this book.

    Linda S wrote this review Tuesday, February 19 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • B-Monkey
    • Rated 4 stars

    I liked it....nice and easy reading. I could identify with the characters.

    B-Monkey wrote this review Friday, December 21 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • JulieK
    • Rated 3 stars

    Kept my attention while I was reading it, but the more I think about it after finishing, the less I like it.

    JulieK wrote this review Saturday, October 27 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • readsall
    • Rated 4 stars

    A huge fan a Brit Chick Lit.

    readsall wrote this review Tuesday, October 16 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • ekkiegirl
    • Rated 3 stars

    Not a bad read but not the best either. It held my interest. Not a tremendously thought provoking book but a decent read none the less.

    ekkiegirl wrote this review Wednesday, September 12 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Fictionchick
    • Rated 5 stars

    I went to her reading here in St. Louis and a group of us had dinner with her. As a writer, I loved how she wove the tale back and forward in time and how a sense of place really anchored the story.

    Fictionchick wrote this review Wednesday, September 12 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • bethB
    • Rated 2 stars

    A story wherein both the mother and daughter make poor decisions. I vacillated between boredom and frustration with the characters' thought processes.

    bethB wrote this review Friday, June 29 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Sugar Malone
    • Rated 3 stars

    A nice mother/daughter story that is saved from being overwrought and melodramatic by the author's sparse writing style.

    Sugar Malone wrote this review Monday, March 19 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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