Go Set a Watchman: A Novel

Harper Lee

Jul 2015 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this eBook

#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

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.

Ratings and reviews

I'm sure the self proclaimed can get going in a whole new life on the proceeds of the sale of this book. Lee may have written this though obviously didn't want it out or she herself could have given it to her publisher YEARS ago. I wouldn't read this if it was on the 99 cent rack, because it's dishonest.

Growth. Heartbreak. Soul crushing. Nostalgic. These are just a few words to describe the complexities that are this book. Many of the surprising facts that where said about this book online where ill informed or one sided. SPOILERS AHEAD: I am disappointed for 2 reasons, 1. Boo Radley was never mentioned. 2. I wanted her to end up with Hank, even if she had to slowly work to help him be a man she could truely love.

This book was horrid! There is no way this was written by the same person who wrote, "To Kill A Mockingbird." It is a slap in the face to all who loved the original. This is pure drivel.

About the author

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, which became a phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller when it was published in July 2015. Ms. Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honors. She died on February 19, 2016.