ELIZABETH STROUT is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive, Again, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, named one of the best books of the year byThe Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Orange Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.
"Strout's insights into the complex psychology bewteen [mother and
daughter] result in a poignant tale about two coming of age."
—Time
"Impressive....Strout writes with abundant warmth." —People
"Poignant...sensitively imagined...[Amy and Isabelle] recalls the
elgegiac charm of Our Town." —The Christian Science Monitor
"Stunning....Every once in a while, a novel comes along that
plunges deep into your psyche, leaving you breathless....This year
that novel is Amy and Isabelle." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Excellent....Strout's collective portrait...remains unflaggingly
engaging....[W]hat a pleasure to gain entry into the world of this
book." —The New Yorker
"Lovely, powerful...a kind if modern 'Rapunzel.'" —Newsweek
"Amy and Isabelle is an impressive debut....with an expansiveness
and inventiveness that is the mark of a true storyteller." —The
Philadelphia Inquirer
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