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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