![]() ![]() Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett’s future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett’s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. In 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. So head over there and let me know your impression of the ending and the book overall. I have so many thoughts about the ending that I wrote a separate post so we can discuss it more in-depth. ![]() But I’m still a bit puzzled by the shift in tone. However, the more I thought about it, I can think back where the author did lay the ground work, at least somewhat. There are elements I enjoyed but others, I was quite perplexed by.Īnd that climax and ending! I did not see that coming at first. ![]() This was something else, right? It seems people either love or actively dislike this novel but I’m somewhere in the middle. ![]()
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