The Lincoln Highway

By Amor Towles

I don’t think I would have chosen this book on Goodreads, but I found it in the book exchange at El Paso RV Park. I picked it up and discovered that it seemed to be about travel—two boys set off on a journey to San Francisco along the Lincoln Highway.

 Once I got started, I found it hard to put down. Although it turned out not to be about what I thought, at all. It was four young men, plus a woman and a man and another man, taking a journey. Or rather, a lot of journeys. They don’t exactly travel far in their chosen direction—it’s most definitely not a travel story. It’s more of a “what sort of wild and unusual things can happen to a crew of wild and unusual people?” story.

 I enjoyed it very much, but be aware that nothing that happens is what you expect to happen. Ever. Some things happen for better, some for worse. But never what you expected.