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Amy and Isabelle
Elizabeth Strout
★★★★· Published 1998· 304 pages· read 2025
Strout's first novel, about a mother and teenage daughter in a Maine mill town and the affair that cracks them open. You can already see how good she is.
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Melissa Bank
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