#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book,and Chosen by Oprah DailyTimeNPRThe Washington PostBill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year ΓÇ£Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with lightwityouth.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöThe New York Times Book Review ΓÇ£A classic that we will read for years to come.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöJenna Bush HagerRead with Jenna book club ΓÇ£Fantastic. Set in 1954Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöBill Gates ΓÇ£A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöNPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbingsophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June1954eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gonehis father recently deceasedand the family farm foreclosed upon by the bankEmmett’s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brotherBillyand head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives awayEmmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car. Togetherthey have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett’s futureone that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite directionΓÇöto the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of viewTowles’s third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settingscharactersand themes. ΓÇ£Once againI was wowed by TowlesΓÇÖs writingΓÇöespecially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of settingplotand themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellershe has range. He takes inspiration from famous heroΓÇÖs journeysincluding The IliadThe OdysseyHamletHuckleberry Finnand Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. Buthe suggestswhen something (or someone) tries to steer us off courseit is possible to take the wheel.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇô Bill Gates