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Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ sequel releasing in July

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Author Harper Lee will have a follow-up to one of the greatest American novels of all time, after all.

Her novel about Scout as an adult is being released in July. Completed in the mid-1950s, the book called Go Set a Watchman was actually written before To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee’s only published novel to date.

The book, according to an AP article, is set in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1950s, 20 years after To Kill A Mockingbird:

The civil rights movement was taking hold by the time she was working on “Watchman.” The Supreme Court had ruled unanimously in 1953 that segregated schools were unconstitutional, and the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 led to the yearlong Montgomery bus boycott.

“Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father, Atticus,” the publisher’s announcement reads. “She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her father’s attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood.”

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