Harper Lee wrote Go Set a Watchman in the mid 1950s. It is a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird. It takes place twenty years later. I need to re-read To Kill a Mockingbird. Go Set a Watchman is a well-written book that entertains and makes one think. Race relations are a theme in both books. Class relations are also a theme. Another theme is standing up for what one believes. The book made me laugh several times. It also brought to attention the injustices of different kinds of discrimination. Race and religious discrimination are the primary ones brought to mind. This is another classic of Twentieth-Century literature. I just wish Harper Lee had written more books. She died in February of this year.
I remember reading that there were people who claimed that Truman Capote had written To Kill a Mockingbird, because it was thought to be the only book that she had written. Some people did not think that she could have written a Pulitzer-prize winning novel as her only book. One of the characters of that book was based on Truman Capote. According to Wikipedia there had been plans for a third book to be set in time between the two books. At least we have these two masterpieces from Harper Lee.
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