the Go Set a Watchman, book review

July 13, 2015 16:50

It is 20 years after Depression-era Maycomb, in the backwaters of Alabama, held its doomed race trial in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Jem is dead of a heart attack; Dill is away in Italy; Atticus Finch has evolved into a small-town bigot who reads pamphlets on "The Black Plague' and regards "our Negro population as backward'.

Scout -- Jean Louise Finch, aged 26 -- is the new moral compass and Civil Rights activist-in-the-making of Go Set a Watchman. Read more

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