Join fellow Natchitoches readers excited about our evening book club, Literary Lagniappe. November’s book is THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY by Amor Towles, with discussion guided by Marné Deranger. A lifelong reader, Marné collaborates with authors and publishers, reviewing new releases and helping her followers discover their ideal books and audiobooks. She called this book a “heartwarming adventure that combines characters you’ll love with a story you can’t put down.” Follow her as ReaderByTheWater on Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to her free Substack Newsletter for more book information.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Natchitoches Picnic Company
Book Info:
A master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America
In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett’s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California, where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett’s future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the city of New York.
Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles’s third novel will satisfy fans of his multilayered literary styling while providing them with an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.
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