Many people idolize and hope to live up to the courage of Atticus Finch, the famous hero lawyer in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. (Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch has a son named after the character).
But as Lee’s second and/or long lost novel is about to debut the early reviews reveal that Lee originally wrote Atticus as a segregationist, not a hero.
Over the weekend the New York Times and Wall St. Journal offered reviews of Go Set a Watchman.
The timing of the release of this novel is fascinating for many reasons, but it also seems highly relevant less than a week after events in South Carolina culminated in the removal of the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds.
