Eighteen-year-old Emmet Watson has just been released from a work farm where he served 15 months for involuntary manslaughter. With his father’s death and his mother long gone, he knows he will never be accepted again in his small, Nebraska community. He plans to leave home with his little brother, Billy and make a new start in California. However, his plans are sidetracked by two stowaway/friends from the work farm. They hid themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car when Emmet was brought home and showed up at this door.
What
follows is an adventure of epic proportions. Although coming in at almost 600
pages, this hefty novel transports us. Multiple, interwoven narrators tell the
story of riding the rails, racial violence, deceit, a stolen car, stolen money,
being drugged, an orphanage run by nuns, betrayal, joy, loss, miracles,
physical threats. Beautiful, transformative writing, a not-to-be-missed
experience.
Highly
recommend.
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