The Lincoln Highway

I really like the way Towles writes. He's able to introduce a new character and within a page he or she is already fully formed in my mind. He does some neat tricks in this book to properly place you in time while constantly shifting character perspectives by having slight overlap in described events from one person to another.

I think I prefer the last book of his that I read, A Gentleman in Moscow, but this one is great as well. It meanders a bit here and there, and is perhaps a bit overlong, but that also just adds to the Odysseyian wandering feel of the whole thing and takes the story in places I did not expect.