The Lincoln Highway

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · Over ONE MILLION copies sold“Wise and wildly entertaining...permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review“A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Read With Jenna“A joyride...elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPRThe bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s AmericaIn June, 1954, eighteen-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 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, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the