Unless you've been living under a rock, you have probably heard the news that has set the book world on fire. There is going to be another book by Harper Lee published. And not only that, but it is the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird! Does bookish life get any better than this?
I somehow missed reading To Kill a Mockingbird in high school, where it is often assigned. I picked it up for the first time a couple of summers ago, and was completely drawn in. I wrote a gushing post about it, which you can read here. I immediately wanted to read more books by Harper Lee - except there weren't any.
I somehow missed reading To Kill a Mockingbird in high school, where it is often assigned. I picked it up for the first time a couple of summers ago, and was completely drawn in. I wrote a gushing post about it, which you can read here. I immediately wanted to read more books by Harper Lee - except there weren't any.
Now it turns out that there actually has been one for quite awhile. Go Set a Watchman was actually written before To Kill a Mockingbird. It follows Scout, all grown up, as she comes home to visit her father. Parts of Scout's childhood are mentioned in flashbacks, and Lee's editor thought it would be better to just straight out tell the story of Scout as a child. And thus, To Kill a Mockingbird was born, and Go Set a Watchman was relegated to the closet.
Now we will finally get a chance to read that first work, and see Scout and Jem and Atticus twenty years on.
Are you excited to read this book? Incredibly impatient for its publication date in July?
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