A review by jaw77
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

5.0

The Lincoln Highway reads like Mark Twain if Huck Finn had a Studebaker, not a raft. It's a road trip novel that's more about the people than the places. It's engrossing, peculiar, and empathetic. Emmett is fresh out of a juvenile work camp for something like involuntary manslaughter. Two of his fellow inmates, Wooley and Duchess, have escaped and join 18-year-old Emmett and his wise 8-year-old brother on what is supposed to be a road trip on the Lincoln Highway west to San Francisco. When the brothers have to head east instead because Wooley and Duchess have absconded with the Studebaker. The brothers follow, hitching a ride on boxcars and adventures ensue. Part road story, part inheritance tale, part adventure the novel is larger than the sum of its parts and arrives at an unexpected destination.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a digital ARC.