![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR. ![]() Thanks for selecting THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY as your next #ReadWithJenna pick. Towles reacted to his novel’s selection on Twitter, where he wrote, “Thanks for selecting THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY as your next #ReadWithJenna pick. From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. “Amor Towles is one of those authors that I think will become a Steinbeck of our generation, and you know it’s hard to say this about many books, but I think The Lincoln Highway will be a classic that we will read for years to come,” Hager said. T he Lincoln Highway is a 2021 novel about a young man named Emmett Watson who travels from Nebraska to New York City in 1954. The novel was a bestseller and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. Towles’ last novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, was published five years ago. ![]() “Not only is it one of the most beautifully written books I have ever picked up, it’s a story about hope, friendship and companionship in a time when we need it so much,” she said. Hager praised Towles’ “profound and poetic prose.” In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus called the novel “a remarkable blend of sweetness and doom” and “an exhilarating ride through Americana.” Towles’ novel, published Tuesday by Viking, follows a young man who’s finished serving a prison sentence for manslaughter, and who embarks on a road trip ,with his little brother, in search of their long-lost mother. Amor Towles’ The Lincoln Highway is the latest pick for Jenna Bush Hager’s Today show book club. ![]()
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