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The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
I really truly love Amor Towles writing. The quality of his words is just entrancing. I picked this book up for a challenge where this was one of the options from a list, I knew really nothing about it going in other than that it was written by an author I had liked in the past. This book was a pleasant surprise, things went in a direction that was completely unexpected. I really didn't read the description or anything, so I was expecting a brother's road trip story, which we do kind of get, but there's so much more going on here.
The story takes place over 10 days and there's a lot of things packed into those few short days. I liked Emmett and his brother though. I appreciated how devoted Emmett was to getting a fresh start and that he had a plan for a new life for him and his brother. Having his "friends" from the work farm show up on his doorstep was not in the plans.
Each of the characters in this story were interesting and unique. I can't say that I liked all of them. Duchess was hard, their chapters were often the hardest for me to leave. Duchess isn't really a good guy, even as he justifies to himself all of his actions. Woolly is the sort of guy that I did feel for, life seems to come at him from a different direction than most and he just doesn't grasp how to handle it all. His connection with young Billy was actually very sweet.
There are some dark undercurrents in this story and the characters are facing a lot in a short amount of time. I remained hopeful for Emmett and Billy to find their new start though and ultimately I just loved this story.
The story takes place over 10 days and there's a lot of things packed into those few short days. I liked Emmett and his brother though. I appreciated how devoted Emmett was to getting a fresh start and that he had a plan for a new life for him and his brother. Having his "friends" from the work farm show up on his doorstep was not in the plans.
Each of the characters in this story were interesting and unique. I can't say that I liked all of them. Duchess was hard, their chapters were often the hardest for me to leave. Duchess isn't really a good guy, even as he justifies to himself all of his actions. Woolly is the sort of guy that I did feel for, life seems to come at him from a different direction than most and he just doesn't grasp how to handle it all. His connection with young Billy was actually very sweet.
There are some dark undercurrents in this story and the characters are facing a lot in a short amount of time. I remained hopeful for Emmett and Billy to find their new start though and ultimately I just loved this story.