The Lincoln Highway

In "The Lincoln Highway" (طريق لينكون السريع), acclaimed author Amor Towles delivers a captivating, character-driven American saga set 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. With his father deceased and the family farm foreclosed upon, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head west to California to start afresh. However, their meticulously planned journey is derailed when two charismatic friends from the work farm, Duchess and Woolly, secretly stow away in the warden's car and hatch a completely different plan—one that takes them all on a fateful detour toward New York City. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple perspectives, Towles crafts a richly layered story about youth, morality, destiny, and the unforeseen roads that shape our lives.

It offers a wonderfully immersive road-trip adventure brimming with memorable characters, rich historical atmosphere, and insightful reflections on choice and fate.

For fans of literary fiction, American road novels, coming-of-age stories, readers of Amor Towles' previous works like A Gentleman in Moscow, and anyone who loves multi-perspective character dramas.