Go Set A Watchman: A Novel - Hardcover

"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: Taking Note

"Watchman is compelling in its timeliness."--Washington Post

"Go Set a Watchman provides valuable insight into the generous, complex mind of one of America's most important authors."--USA Today

"Harper Lee's second novel sheds more light on our world than its predecessor did."--Time

"[Go Set a Watchman] contains the familiar pleasures of Ms. Lee's writing- the easy, drawling rhythms, the flashes of insouciant humor, the love of anecdote."--Wall Street Journal

"Don't let 'Go Set a Watchman' change the way you think about Atticus Finch...the hard truth is that a man such as Atticus, born barely a decade after Reconstruction to a family of Southern gentry, would have had a complicated and tortuous history with race."--Los Angeles Times

"A significant aspect of this novel is that it asks us to see Atticus now not merely as a hero, a god, but as a flesh-and-blood man with shortcomings and moral failing, enabling us to see ourselves for all our complexities and contradictions."--Washington Post

"The success of Go Set a Watchman... lies both in its depiction of Jean Louise reckoning with her father's beliefs, and in the manner by which it integrates those beliefs into the Atticus we know."--Time

"Go Set a Watchman's greatest asset may be its role in sparking frank discussion about America's woeful track record when it comes to racial equality."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Go Set a Watchman comes to us at exactly the right moment. All important works of art do. They come when we don't know how much we need them."--Chicago Tribune

Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise FinchScoutstruggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her. Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lees enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.