The Lincoln Highway

By: Amor Towles

in june, 1954, eighteen-year-old emmett watson is driven home to nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, emmett’s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they can start their lives anew. but when the...