We are getting a new book by one Harper Lee.
Indeed, and as you probably know by now, the reclusive author, 88, will publish Go Set a Watchman, a follow-up to her beloved Pulitzer Prize winner, To Kill a Mockingbird, this July.
Good timing for me since I just took out To Kill a Mockingbird from the San Francisco Public Library.
Go Set a Watchman is reportedly set after the events of the classic novel and will focus on an adult Scout. Oh, and get this: the novel was actually completed before To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lee revealed when she made her announcement earlier this week that, given that her editor at the time was so “taken” by all the flashbacks to the character’s childhood, that she was encouraged to write a novel from the younger Scout’s POV.
So the follow-up – which will hit bookshelves on July 14 – will see her returning to Maycomb, Ala., after a 20-year absence, to visit Atticus and, by default, to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her father’s attitude toward society, as well as her own feelings about her birthplace.
Photo: Vulture.com.
Update 1: In case this was something that you were wondering about, Harper Lee is totally with it.
Mentally, that is.
This according to a historian-friend who reportedly visits with the author at least once a month. So Lee’s decision to publish this second book was totally and fully hers.
Update 1: Lee is so with it, in fact, that she is said to be quite “hurt and humiliated” that people could be thinking she could be out of her mind and easily duped into releasing this second tome.
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