The Lincoln Highway -- Amor Towles

<b><b><b><b>#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER </b> <p/> <b>More than ONE MILLION copies sold</b> <p/>A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick</b> <p/><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book, and Chosen by <i>Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post</i>, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year</b> <p/><b>"Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth." --<b><i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/> "A classic that we will read for years to come." --<b>Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club</b> <p/>"Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope<b>." --Bill Gates</b> <p/> "A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable." <b>--NPR</b><br></b> <br>The bestselling author of <i>A Gentleman in Moscow</i> and <i>Rules of Civility</i> and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America</b></b> <p/>In 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 th