This book is in my ‘top ten to a tropical island’ list. Who else but this eloquent woman who could make a world of a six year old being written in her perspective, while allowing her readers to know and understand beyond her child’s narrative? I am not pleased, and do not believe that her lawyer ‘miraculously’ discovered the second manuscript in with Mockingbird’s original. Ms. Lee’s sister had it put away and closed to publication, as they both had decided. Then why not destroy it, as an agent once told them to do? The material was described as dark and from a place of anger. I will most likely not pick it up, but who knows?
I’ve read this book aloud to two different groups of people of various backgrounds unable to enjoy the printed word. From the tree, to Boo’s back porch, to the steps outside the jail, you can’t help but to be pulled in. I tied the chapter about Old Tim Johnson and Jem seeing his Dad as a ‘Sure Shot’ to ask VHS’ers when they realized something like that in their own lives. Man. What a masterpiece. Wow. Ms. Lee, I so appreciate your dogged persistence, and incredible skill you poured into a book such as this. How large the crowd of admirers. Thank you. clink