“Go Set a Watchman” was actually Lee’s first manuscript, written after she left her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, and headed to Manhattan to pursue her dream of writing. The book includes three “stand alone pieces” featuring flashbacks of Scout, Burnham said. Scout, the 6-year-old narrator in Lee’s first - and until now, only - novel, is now a grown woman who goes by her given name, Jean Louise. “Go Set a Watchman” takes place in the mid 1950s, about 20 years after the trial that served as the centerpiece of Lee’s beloved “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The civil rights movement has erupted in the segregated south. And so I think it will incite incredible conversation and argument." "I think people will have strong feelings about it because it actually has real relevance, real topicality in its treatment of race.
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