Go Set a Watchman

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 * 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 * The voice we came to know so well in To Kill a Mockingbird – funny, ornery, rule breaking – is right here in Go Set a Watchman, too, as exasperating and captivating as ever * Chicago Tribune * 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 (whose title is a reference to a Biblical verse about the moral compass) 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. Only in retrospect, only when they’re already here and we’re discussing the issues they raise and the emotions they engender, do we appreciate the beautiful synchronicity that links the historical moment with the individual imagination that so heroically explores it * Chicago Tribune *