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The Lincoln Highway: Recap & Chapter-by-Chapter Summary

Chapter 10 Chapter 9 Chapter 8 Chapter 7 Chapter 6 Chapter 5 Chapter 4 Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Chapter 10 Emmett — June 12, 1954 Warden Williams drops Emmett Watson off at his house after being released from juvenile detention at Salina after completing his sentence. A year ago, Emmett killed another young …

Rock Paper Scissors

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney passed me by when it was released a month ago, but I’ve heard good things about it. Then, when I heard that Richard Armitage was narrating parts of the audiobook, it jumped straight to the top of my to-read (or to-listen, I suppose) list. (You might know him as …

Rock Paper Scissors: Recap & Summary

(The section headings aren’t in the book, I added them to make this summary easier to navigate.) On the Way to Blackwater Chapel In February 2020, Amelia is in the car with her husband Adam Wright, on their way to a weekend getaway in Scotland. Their marriage counselor Pamela had suggested the trip, so they …

Bewilderment

Bewilderment by Richard Powers was recently released two weeks ago. With Powers’s last novel winning the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, it was sure to be big release. Sure enough, Bewilderment was selected for Oprah’s Book Club and has been shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize already. The story in Bewilderment deals with a father, …

Bewilderment: Recap, Summary & Analysis

The book is written without chapter headings, chapter numbers or section heading. The bolded headings here are added to help with navigating this summary (followed by the first few words of that section in quotes), but do not appear in the book. Smoky Mountains Trip Background Information Return from the Trip and the Metal Thermos …