pulitzer prize winning author elizabeth strouts bestselling and award winning debut amy and isabelleadapted for television by oprah winfrey evokes a teenagers alienation from her distant motherand a parents rage at the discovery of her daughters sexual secretsin most ways isabelle and amy are like any mother and her 16yearold daughter a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance that they eat sleep and work side by side in the gossipridden mill town of shirley fallsa location fans of strout will recognize from her critically acclaimed novel the burgess boysonly increases the tension and just when it appears things cant get any worse amys 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 pasta readers guide is included in the paperback edition of this powerful first novel by the author who brought olive kitteridge to millions of readers