Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman First Chapter Released
Today, The Guardian has released the first chapter from Go Set a Watchman, the new Harper Lee sequel-that-is-actually-a-first-draft-of-To-Kill-A-Mockingbird. The release of this book is incredibly problematic, to borrow a term from the Internet activists, and there are too many peripheral details surrounding the ordeal that make it seem as though the book was only published due to the death of Lee’s protective older sister and the money-hungry opportunism of a lawyer and a publishing house. For more on that, see the following links:
—The dark suspicions behind the release.
—Harper Lee is actually really happy about the release.
—Alabama says she wasn’t manipulated.