Go Set A Watchman

Harper Lee's novel, Go Set A Watchman, is due out next week. 

I recently reread To Kill A Mockingbird and once more fell in love with Scout's dry wit and perspicacious outlook on life.  I love that little girl and I could not wait to read the first chapter of Go Set A Watchman that came out today.

I felt like I had gone to the train to meet an old friend this morning.  I heard hints of the same old Jean Louise coming through an older, very slightly, more restrained grown up. I doubt if she will be quite as tartly fascinating as the child who turned a riot away trying to be like her daddy, but I am looking forward to the rest of the book.

I want to know what this woman, who won a Pulitzer Prize, wrote first.  I want to hear the thoughts and words of a woman who was trying to get her foot in the door just as women's lib was starting.  I want to know how she wrote before someone began editing her thoughts and words.

And after saying all that, I am now one hundred percent sure she wrote To Kill A Mockingbird herself. 

Any book written from an adult's point of view is likely to be a bit more restrained than that of a six year old, but it's still worth reading.

I can't wait to read the book.  It sounds like pure Harper Lee.