First off: This is NOT TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD! Second: If anyone has been following the pre release of GO SET A WATCHMAN you know that this book should have NEVER been published. And third: DO NOT criticize this book before you read it!
GO SET A WATCHMAN takes the people of Maycomb county and jumps them right into the middle of the civil rights era. Scout now a woman out on her own living in New York comes home for a visit. Here she encounters Atticus & dozens of familiar faces & lives, all of them trying to deal with time, life and the Supreme Court decision on civil rights. When reading GO SET A WATCHMAN, try to remember the atmosphere of the South after the courts decision. Maycomb is no different and Scout is thrust into the middle of it. She still sees Maycomb and Atticus and the residents as she did when she was younger when she ran the streets with Jem & Dill playing and getting into trouble. That's her first mistake. Like I said before, dont criticize it before you read it. I was crying towards the end. Its not TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD & it never will be, but I think as a first book of Harper Lee's it was a good read.
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