Isabelle is furious that Amy has not told her about the affair. Stacy sees Thomas and Amy together, realizes what is going on, and tells Isabelle. One day, he drives her home from school and has sex with her. Recognizing that Amy is vulnerable, Thomas strikes up a conversation with her about poetry. Meanwhile, Amy is taken advantage of by her substitute math teacher, Thomas Robertson. Isabelle sold the family home and rented a small carriage house in Shirley Falls. Isabelle’s mother helped raise Amy while Isabelle attended college, but both Isabelle’s parents died when Amy was two. Already married, when Jake found out that Isabelle was pregnant, he moved away with his family. As a teenager, Isabelle was seduced by an older man Jake Cunningham, a friend of her father’s. She has raised Amy alone for most of Amy’s life. Isabelle works at the local mill, and Amy attends high school where she is best friends with a rich girl Stacy Burrows. Isabelle Goodrow and her sixteen-year-old daughter Amy live on the wealthy side of town, though they are an exception to the economic divide as they are not well off financially. A river divides the town, separating the well-off residents from the poorer ones. The novel is set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls, Maine. Elizabeth Strout’s first novel, family drama Amy and Isabelle (1998), was adapted into a TV movie of the same name, produced by Oprah Winfrey in 2001.
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