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Go Set a Watchman

Go Set a Watchman

Author(s): Harper Lee

Location(s): Monroeville

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1950s

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Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father’s attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood.

Set in fictional Maycomb, based on the author’s home town of Monroeville

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A big event to herald a “new” book by Harper Lee. The New Yorker says of fictional Macomb: The evocation of Maycomb, with which the new book begins, and which recurs throughout its pages, is...

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