Amor Towles · 2021 · road

Amor Towles' 2021 novel, set over ten days in 1954. Eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson means to drive the Lincoln Highway west from Nebraska to California with his little brother Billy, to start a new life. But two friends escaped from a work farm have other ideas, and the car is spirited the wrong way entirely: east, all the way to New York, in a wrong-direction odyssey along the great transcontinental road.

1. 1
   Morgen

   Released from a work farm, Emmett plans to drive the Lincoln Highway west to California, but his car is taken the wrong way instead.

2. 2
   Omaha

   The journey turns east, toward the very direction the brothers never meant to go.

3. 3
   Chicago

   Across Iowa and Illinois by stolen car and boxcar alike.

4. 4
   New York

   To the eastern end of the Lincoln Highway, the bright chaos of Times Square.

5. 5
   The Adirondacks

   And up to a family camp in the Adirondacks, where a hidden inheritance and a final reckoning wait.