Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (4/5)

Go Set a Watchman, a historical fiction novel by Harper Lee, is a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird. The narrator is once again Scout, who returns to Maycomb every year for a two-week trip. On this particular trip, she is 26. She lives in New York, and has learned a lot since she was a child. When she returns home, she realizes just how much the town she loves, Maycomb, is changing and has changed, and she doesn’t exactly approve of these changes. She talks to the people around her, and over the course of the book she learns more and more about her childhood, family, and the politics surrounding this town. While this book was good, it was not the best book I have read. It was a great follow up to To Kill a Mockingbird, but at times it was a bit confusing. If I read a little slower and paused to reread and understand what exactly the author was writing, I might have understood it better. This is not a book you should read quickly and glaze over. It is the type of book that you read in depth, or slower. Some advice I would recommend to future readers is to be sure you have read the first book, and that you are able to read this book slowly and understand what it means. I think the author provides a great story about what life was like for some people, and I like the way she related it to her previous novel while also providing a new story. The book relates to the topic of prejudice, and takes place during the time when minorities faced a lot of hate and prejudice because of the color of their skin. The author did a good job of relating this book to that topic and making it interesting. This book made me think about what life could have been like for people, and how hard their lives must have been. This novel is definitely a good read for anyone who enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird, and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in more details about what happened and what happened to Scout and the town of Maycomb after To Kill a Mockingbird.