
Amor Towles – The Lincoln Highway
From the author of the bestseller, A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles’ The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America. Eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska after serving 15 months at a juvenile work farm for involuntary manslaughter. His mother is long gone, his father is deceased so Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head to California to start a new life. When the warden drives away Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have stowed away in the trunk and they have very different plans for Emmett’s future that will see them journey to New York City instead.