When Isabelle finds out, she is horrified to realize that her anger at him is dwarfed by her rage at her own daughter for "enjoying the sexual pleasures of a man while she herself had not." Robertson, who has gone way beyond the bounds of propriety by encouraging the crush. For Amy has fallen in love with her high-school math teacher, Mr. Other citizens in the New England mill town of Shirley Falls are bothered by the heat and by "other things too: Further up the river crops weren't right-pole beans were small, shriveled on the vine, carrots stopped growing when they were no bigger than the fingers of a child and two UFOs had apparently been sighted in the north of the state." But Amy and Isabelle have a more private misery: a seemingly unbridgeable chasm has opened between this once-close mother and daughter and nothing will ever be the same again. Robertson left town." For Amy Goodrow and her mother, Isabelle, the heat of that summer is the least of their problems. Isabella's discovery of Amy's sexual liaison with her maths teacher threatens to demolish the brittle construct of their lives in Shirley Falls, and to reveal all their hidden shame and grief. Synopsis: A mother and daughter engage in a battle of wills in the searing heat of an intense summer.
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