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This. Book. Was. Amazing.

Some background (some necessary, some not): I read Rules of Civility back in 2012 (WHOA) and it has been a book that I happily recommended to people throughout the years, because I remembered really liking it (although present day Lindsey doesn't remember specifics because 2012 Lindsey was a jerk and didn't keep a book journal or write a review).

I have had A Gentleman in Moscow on my shelves since it was published in 2016 (still unread, naturally).

And now I've read The Lincoln Highway (pubs Oct 5th!) and it's definitely a contender for favorite book of the year.

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This is how I described in a message to a friend and it still feels accurate so I'm going to add it in here: if you enjoy coming of age stories / unreliable narrators / literary fiction / incredible characters / historical fiction / multi-layered generational stories / beautiful prose / pages upon pages of highlightable quotes / multiple narrators / family stories ... then you need this book!

I loved every part of this book - but most especially how singularly real it felt while I was reading, as if I could close my eyes and open them to find Duchess, Wooly, Emmett, and Billy standing in front of me, opening the door to Emmett's 1948 Studebaker Land Cruiser so I could come along on the trip.

Man alive, I just really LOVED this book. It would also make a FANTASTIC book club book - I'm considering making one and choosing this book for our inaugural read and then talking to a bunch of people about how much we all loved it and then just not going back after that. Seems doable. And fair to everyone else, because I suck at book clubs. Yeah. I'll do that.