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Twenty‑six‑year‑old Jean Louise "Scout" Finch departs New York City for a homecoming in Maycomb, Alabama, to see her aging father, Atticus. Set amid the 1950s civil‑rights tensions and political upheavals that were reshaping the South, Scout confronts disturbing revelations about her close‑knit family and the town she knows. Memories of her childhood flood back, challenging her long‑held values and forcing her to reevaluate the truths she once took for granted. The novel turns a painful but necessary transition out of past myths into a personal moral journey, enriching the legacy of Harper Lee’s earlier work while offering a fuller understanding of its characters and themes.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Harper Lee
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