One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place. Shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day.'' Capturing this daily complexity is exactly what Elizabeth Strout accomplishes in her evocative first novel, ''Amy and Isabelle,'' Within each family, as Cather notes, there are ''innumerable Life.'' Since they are the most necessary of bonds, family relationships are also the most imperfect, which is what makes writing about them so particularly challenging.
N the best stories about families, one is invariably led to agree with Willa Cather's remark that ''human relationships are the tragic necessity of human A first novel charts the escalating tension between a woman and her teen-age daughter in a New England mill town.
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