Go Set a Watchman

A Novel

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Go Set a Watchman

Auteur(s): Harper Lee

Narrateur(s): Reese Witherspoon

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Performed by Reese Witherspoon

Number one New York Times best seller

“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.

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"All [characters] are portrayed by Witherspoon with perfect pitch and pacing, and the sure hand of a talented actress who is well aware of the region's racially fraught past." (AudioFile)

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Go Set a Watchman is its own story. Yes, it has the same gentile voice and brutal reality Harper Lee is known for, but this story is its own morality play reflective of that conflicted era when the South was going through growing pains in terms of Black & White equality, and how small town views were slow to catch up, even with good-hearted souls like Atticus Finch.

Many reviewers disliked Harper Lee's portrayal of Atticus in Watchman, her staining the moral authority he was known for in Mockingbird, but Nell was right to do this, for even in those days, the righteous could be less than perfect. The entire country was having to readjust their views on Blacks, and to portray Atticus as above all that would have been false. He knows associating with racists was wrong but in that society oftentimes you have to befriend the enemy in order to change him into a friend who can eventually see the light.

I would have given Watchman a higher rating but Lee spends quite a bit of time in what I feel is soap-box narration, and although I see why she wrote it as she did, the lectures take away from the story and you end up popping out of the story bubble in some places.

It couldn't have been easy when Lee wrote this as so much of her time was spent with Truman Capote in Kansas re: the Clutter murders investigation, and she felt she had to "maintain" as per the Pulitzer on Mockingbird. To attempt a sequel in this mindset and to meet readers' expectations of her, I feel it would have been better had she left the idea of a sequel alone and wrote something altogether different. Then years later, attempt Watchman possibly when emotions - writer and reader - had settled.

Nell Harper Lee, I will so miss her gentile voice and her brutally honest societal takes. To lose her feels as if you've lost a Faberge egg - something so utterly priceless never to be had again.

Do NOT Judge Watchman to Mockingbird