To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, 1960
A girl watches her small Alabama town put a man on trial, and learns in one long summer how decent people can be cowards.
Feels like family, morality and nostalgia.
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Lee worked as a reservations clerk for Eastern Air Lines and wrote at night; friends gave her a year's wages to quit and finish the book.
Some injuries become the way a childhood gets dated.
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. Harper Lee, 1960
A girl watches her small Alabama town put a man on trial, and learns in one long summer how decent people can be cowards.
Harper Lee, 2015
Jean Louise comes home to Alabama from New York and finds her small town, and her father, changed — or finds that she is.
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