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![]() ![]() You fall in love with them and are left with all the feels.Ī glorious five out of five stars for me, The Lincoln Highway will be my go-to recommendation this fall.” ![]() And Billy is the smartest, sweetest kid who inspires those around him. ![]() Emmett is the stoic, do-right midwesterner who always fixes the messes. Duchess and Woolly, the stowaways, felt like a modern day George and Lennie from Of Mice and Men with Woolly's gentle giant innocence and Duchess' take-the-lead wile. You feel so deeply about every single one of them and it feels like they leap off the page with specificities with which they are written. You cannot beat the quirkiness of Towles' characters. This felt like a modern classic, the new and updated version of Huckleberry Finn that I actually wanted to read in high school. From the first page, I was immediately drawn into Towles' magical writing and superb characters. “THIS BOOK EXCEEDED ALL EXPECTATIONS! As a huge fan of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility, The Lincoln Highway had a lot of pressure and holy cow did it surpass anything I could have hoped for. ![]()
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