Amy was first involved with sketch comedy when she joined the group My Mother's Flea. She is of Irish (from her mother) and English, Irish, German, and Portuguese (from her father) descent. Witty and often profound, Amy and Isabelle confirms Elizabeth Strout as a powerful new talenta. Amy Meredith Poehler was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to high school teachers Eileen Frances (Milmore) and William Grinstead Poehler. 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.Īnd 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. And eating, sleeping, and working side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls doesn't help matters.īut 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. Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student in a. 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. Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter. 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.
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