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Book Review: Go Set a Watchmen by Harper Lee

Go Set a Watchman (To Kill a Mockingbird, #2)Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."

Harper Lee, author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird, writes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Go Set a Watchmen perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past - a journey that can only be guided by one's own conscience.

I picked up this book to delve in the 1950s period and realize how telling in 2020, that much has not really changed in social and political climates. To me, it only surfaced with the "elephant in the room (country)" divide. The quote above taken from the novel seemed to encapsulate the struggle of the protagonist that she must deal with the reality of being away from home to be more "enlighten" with the rest of the country, only to realize she is caught with the revelation, the society she once knew hasn't really change with the times.

It makes me wonder and think about my departure from growing up in Hawaii and seeing how little has change. Sure, gone are the sugar cane fields and today's technology enveloped society, in the minds of the "locals", their way of thinking hasn't changed either.


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