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Quote:NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's secrets.

"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."-The New York Times Book Review

Before there was Olive Kitteridge, there was Amy and Isabelle.

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, The Burgess Boys-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.

A Reader's Guide is included in this powerful first novel by the author who brought Olive Kitteridge to millions of readers.

Category:Awards, Fiction, Literature, American Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Literary Fiction, 20th Century American Fiction, Settings & Atmosphere - Fiction, Family & Friendship - Fiction, Occupations - Fiction, Women's Fiction, 20th Century American Fiction - 1945-2000, Academic Settings - Fiction, Family Secrets - Fiction, Motherhood - Fiction, Mothers & Daughters - Fiction, Single Parents - Fiction, Teachers - Fiction, Women - Mothers & Mothering, Women - Romantic Relationships, Women of a Certain Age, 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, 2000 Orange Prize Shortlist, 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction (Art Seidenbaum Award)

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