Reflections 2

As long as I was re-reading, To Kill a Mocking Bird , I also dove into Harper Lee's new book, Go Set a Watchman. Caution...there may be some spoilers ahead. The book picks up on Scout, now as an adult. She lives in New York but comes home for a visit. She has to deal with the fact that no human, no one, not even her father, is perfect. While I enjoy Lee's long prose and rambling style, this book just did not quite get it for me. Perhaps it was because the expectations were so high. What I loved about Mockingbird were the exit ramps. Atticus shooting a dog with rabies or the side story with Boo Ridley. Watchman has few of those...and less characters too. In some ways, this would have been a great short story as an epilogue to Lee's book, or the first chapter...then we set out with Scout to New York. How would a Southern deal with Yankees in the 1950s and 60s? How does she eschew and embrace her upbringing? Sometimes those stories need to be explored outside