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If you liked Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow , you’ll enjoy Amor Towles’ third novel. The Lincoln Highway, a New York Times bestseller, is a coming of age novel about Emmett Watson after he is freed from a juvenile work farm where he was imprisoned for over a year for involuntary manslaughter. Upon his release, Emmett has to come to terms with the harsh realities ahead: He is now an orphan who is left to fend for himself and his younger brother after the brothers lost their family farm to the bank. But his plans are thwarted when he realizes that he and Billy are not alone. They are joined by two of Emmett’s former companions from the Salina Juvenile Detention Center, Duchess and Woolly, who decide to alter the Watsons’ plan by heading to New York instead of California. Through the 10-day journey, the children go through a series of misadventures that teach them an invaluable number of lessons the hard way.

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