

He's going to be returning to the family farm.

In the case of this, in the case of The Lincoln Highway, similarly, once I had the notion of the two kids hitting the trunk of the car-of the warden's car-I was like, oh, it's going to be in the Midwest. Like guy gets trapped in hotel for a long period of time. It was a premise that could fit in a sentence. You know, in the case of Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow, it was very similar. And yes, for me, the starting point was as simple as that: Boy returning from work farm two friends from the work farm are hidden in the trunk of the warden's car. Your description was excellent, first of all. And I believe I read, is that where this adventure began for you? Was that the original idea for this book? And unbeknownst to either man in the car, two other young men, Duchess and Woolly have stowed away in the trunk of the warden's car. Uh, The Lincoln Highway begins as 18-year-old Emmett Watson is being driven by the warden of a troubled youth farm in Salina, Kansas, back to his farm in Nebraska, where his father had recently passed away. So I just want to set up the novel for our listeners.
