Sunday at the Library: The Lincoln Highway

The Friends of the Rosendale Library Invites you to Read and Discuss The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Towles’s magnificent comic road novel follows the rowdy escapades of four boys in the 1950s and doubles as an old-fashioned narrative about farms, families, and accidental friendships. In June 1954, 18-year-old Emmett Watson returns to his childhood farm in Morgen, Neb., from a juvenile detention camp. Emmet was released early because his father had died and his homestead had been foreclosed reunites with his eight-year-old brother, Billy.  They light out for San Francisco in hopes of finding their mother, who abandoned them. Plans immediately go awry when two escaped inmates from Emmett’s camp, Duchess and Woolly, appear in the Watsons’ barn. Woolly says his grandfather has stashed $150,000 in the family’s Adirondack Mountains cabin, which he offers to split evenly between the three older boys. But Duchess and Woolly take off with Emmett’s Studebaker, leaving the brothers in pursuit as boxcar boys. On the long and winding journey, the brothers encounter both good and bad characters and experience epic events and heroic adventures. Towles is a supreme storyteller, and this one-of-a-kind kind of novel isn’t to be missed.

Copies of this book are available to borrow through the Mid-Hudson Library system. Ask at the circulation desk for assistance if needed. Contact info@rosendalelibrary.org for further information.