![]() ![]() It’s a sentimental as well as practical choice, home to his mother, who left the family years earlier, sending back postcards from locales along the Lincoln Highway during her journey west. After a morning spent in the library with the Encyclopaedia Britannica - it’s 1954 - he decides that California is the more promising place. His decision to start fresh leads to a second choice - Texas or California? Trained as a carpenter, Emmett seeks a destination with a rapidly growing population where he can make a living flipping houses. ![]() Facing foreclosure on the family farm and violent retribution from the family of the bully he accidentally killed at the fairgrounds, Emmett has an immediate and stark choice - should he stay or should he go? Upon the death of his father from cancer, 18-year-old Emmett Watson is released early from a juvenile work farm in Kansas and driven home by a kind warden to a small town in Nebraska, where he is reunited with his precocious 8-year-old brother, Billy. ![]() Amor Towles’s third novel begins with a deceptively straightforward premise. ![]()
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