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Summary
Amor Towles's novel follows eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson, released from a juvenile work farm in Nebraska in 1954, who plans to drive west with his younger brother to start a new life in California. Their journey is upended when two fellow escapees from the farm force a detour that sends the group east along the Lincoln Highway.