This one is a recommendation from my Mom and when I went to check it out from the Glendale library, I was a bit startled by how many pages it was. Around 575. But there are short books that are slogs and doorstops that breeze by and The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles glides by like a Studebaker on the highway.
It tells the tale of Emmet and Billy Watson. Two brothers in the middle of the country going on a trip to find their mom who left them many years previously. Other characters come in and out like the Duchess and Wooly, Sally and
This was a pleasant enough book but all the characters seemed very soap opera thin. You had the noble leader, the stalwart gal, the wise younger brother, the wild card and the dim but lovable character. The crazy thing that I though of was the book reminded me of the later Back to the Future movies where everything got very broad and you could see where a scene was going to go from miles away. So if a safe needed to be cracked you knew the wild card would fly off the handle, and the preternaturally smart kid would figure out the combination.
But the end of the book threw me for a loop. I did not see that level of casual disregard to happen.
Anyway for beer the obvious way to go would be to Google the Lincoln Highway route and see which breweries are close that route and have those ready. I would add that finding some Bay Area beers would be a good choice too since the end destination is San Francisco. Maybe a Pliny the Elder would do for the wise kid.