#1 New York Times Bestseller More than One Million copies soldA Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club PickA New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, Npr, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year ""Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth."" -The New York Times Book Review ""A classic that we will read for years to come."" -Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club ""Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope."" -Bill Gates ""A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable."" -Npr The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s AmericaIn 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.