A Goodreads user asked this question about The Lincoln Highway:
I find the use of long dashes instead of quotation marks very distracting. It takes me out of the story. Does anyone know why this punctuation choice was made?
Dree Hulsey I thought it was a cleaner, tidier way to get dialogue across
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by Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)
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