![]() ![]() "Go Set a Watchman" is partially told in flashbacks from Jean Louise's youth, a time of both innocent joy and apprehension. There she discovers that the reality of racial injustice that so shadowed her childhood is still thriving. The novel is the story of a 26-year-old woman named Jean Louise (childhood nickname: Scout) Finch, who had made a similar journey North, but is returning to her roots - a fictionalized version of Monroeville called Maycomb - for a brief vacation. ![]() Lee had recently left her hometown of Monroeville, Ala., for New York City, lured by dreams of literary glory. A word on the book's provenance: "Go Set a Watchman" was written in the mid-1950s. ![]()
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