A review by michaelpdonley
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

3.0

How can one help compare? To Kill a Mockingbird changed my life. Atticus Finch is who I want to be. The book is the one Harper Lee meant to shape our judgment of these characters. Go Set a Watchman is a pre-imagining, and of course it pales in comparison. But what I do admire is Lee's fight with the times, which she writes about in lengthy debates between Jean Louise and her father, her uncle and her suitor, and in a heartbreaking exchange with her former maid Calpurnia. Long debates don't make for great stories, and that's why Mockingbird spoke so much clearer. Mockingbird let the story do the talking.