The novel is set over just 10 days, with its chapters counting down from 10 to 1.
Like all the best-laid plans, this one goes awry through a variety of mishaps and tricks Duchess and Woolly take off in the Studebaker, and Emmett and Billy have to hop the Sunset East train to head them off in New York City. They propose heading east to Woolly's wealthy family's upstate New York getaway to collect his hidden $150,000 trust fund and split it four ways. However, the brothers soon discover that Duchess and Woolly, teens from the detention center, escaped and stowed away in the warden's car to the Watson farm. Billy has another idea: taking the continent-spanning Lincoln Highway to find their mother in San Francisco - the last place she mailed a postcard from after she disappeared eight years ago. Grateful for the excuse to get away from Nebraska, he intends to light out for Texas to flip houses. Luckily, Emmett still has his pride and joy, his 1948 Studebaker (see Beyond the Book), as well as a cash inheritance from his father. He and his eight-year-old brother, Billy, will soon be homeless, with the bank giving them three weeks to clear out.
When the warden drops him back at the family farm in Nebraska, Emmett learns that the loan on the property was recalled after his father died. The 18-year-old has just been released from a boys' detention center in Kansas, where he served a little over a year for his role in an accidental death. Things look bleak for Emmett Watson in June of 1954. Voted 2021 Best Fiction Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers
In Towles' third novel - a big, old-fashioned dose of Americana - brothers and pals set out from Nebraska on road and rail adventures to find a fortune in 1950s New York.
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