New York: Viking, (2021) DJ. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set in just 10 days in June of 1954 which begins when 18-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. With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden's car. They have a very different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City." A New York Times Notable Book, this was selected by Time, NPR, The Washington Post and Barack Obama as a best book of the year. 576 pp. ISBN: 978-0735222359.