Go Set a Watchman

By Harper Lee

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Go Set a Watchman (2015) is Harper Lee's novel set in Maycomb, Alabama, in the mid-1950s. Grown Jean Louise Finch, nicknamed Scout, returns from New York to visit her father Atticus. She finds the town's racial politics and Atticus's views harder to square with the childhood ideals she carried north. Written before To Kill a Mockingbird and published decades later, it follows Scout's reckoning with home, family and belonging.

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• Reese Witherspoon: “I was honored to read Harper Lee's #GoSetAWatchman on audiobook. Getting the chance to read her beautiful prose was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity... Lee's heartbreaking, humorous and startlingly honest characters reveal the complexity of living in the South during this pivotal time of change in America. I highly recommend it.”