Go Set a Watchman

#1 New York Times Bestseller

"Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades...
-- New York Times (Opinion Pages)

A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch--"Scout"--returns home to Maycomb, Alabama from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past--a journey that can only be guided by one's own conscience.

Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of the late Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor, and effortless precision--a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context, and new meaning to an American classic.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Published: 07/14/2015
ISBN: 9780062409850
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d

Review Citations: People Weekly 04/06/2015 pg. 26
Entertainment Weekly 05/15/2015 pg. 67
New Yorker (The) 07/27/2015 pg. 66
People Weekly 07/27/2015 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 07/20/2015
Entertainment Weekly 07/24/2015 pg. 61
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2015
New York Times Book Review 08/02/2015 pg. 8
Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 86
New York Review of Books 09/24/2015 pg. 22
Christian Century 10/14/2015 pg. 24

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 175479 / Go Set a Watchman
Reading Level: 5.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10