The Lincoln Highway

One sentence synopsis... Recently ‘released' from a juvenile reformatory, a group of boys embark on a road trip across American in 1954 - they don't make it far before a series of detours throw their plans into disarray.

Read it if you like... Americana, Huck Finn style stories. It was way too sentimental for me. There was never a doubt the young hero and his precocious little brother would have everything work out for them in the end. Towles' last two books led me to have higher expectations and this third novel was a big let down.

Dream casting... Charlie Plummer and Jacob Tremblay as brothers Emmett and Billy Watson.