Harper Lee’s buzzed-about new release, Go Set A Watchman, went on sale last week, taking the world by storm with its new investigations of Scout Finch as a grown woman and its divisive portrayal of her father, Atticus Finch, as a racist figure. Here are some highlights from the new book:

Publication of the book ends a notorious 50-year stalemate as Harper Lee finally consents to depicting a train on the dust jacket



1950s prose gorgeously rendered in 11-point Big Caslon font



Hooks readers with its wildly implausible storyline suggesting it’s possible to see one’s parent in a different light as an adult



Jean Louise is now 26 and relishing the opportunity to cuss as much as she wants



Atticus shocks readers as a white man who has become a conservative blowhard with age



Pretty tense Thanksgiving dinner



Old rocking chair on the front porch swaying in the breeze makes poignant appearance in third chapter



Eighteen pages of comprehension questions to encourage critical thinking and small group discussion



Boo Radley, who has lived a contented life of seclusion in Alabama for decades, is dragged into the spotlight and coerced into signing away the rights to his long-dormant manuscript

