Five top books on mothers and children

One title on the Barnes & Noble Review's 2013 list of five top books on mothers and children:
Amy and Isabelle
by Elizabeth Strout

Pulitzer-winning Elizabeth Strout’s emotionally wrenching debut novel portrays a mother-daughter bond on the brink of dissolution amid secrets, scandal, and the cloistered temperance of old New England. When daughter Amy is found in the backseat of a car with her