Go Set a Watchman: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Harper Lee’s second novel sheds more light on our world than its predecessor did.”

  — Time

• “Oscar-winning actress and Southern girl Reese Witherspoon portrays the narrator…with perfect pitch and pacing and the sure hand of a talented actress who is well aware of the region’s racially fraught past…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

  — AudioFile

• “Perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades.” 

  — New York Times

• “Go Set a Watchman’s greatest asset may be its role in sparking frank discussion about America’s woeful track record when it comes to racial equality.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “It is, in most respects, a new work, and a pleasure, revelation, and genuine literary event.”

  — The Guardian (London)

• “The theme of the book is basically about not being able to go home again.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Watchman is a messier and more complicated story than To Kill a Mockingbird, both in its themes and its execution…Lee’s talent for capturing the small-town South is on full display.”

  — BookPage

• “The current work stands as you-are-there documentation of a specific time and place, contextualizing both Mockingbird and the very beginnings of the civil rights movement, ”

  — Library Journal

• “Lee, who is plainly on the side of equality, writes of class, religion, and race but most affectingly of the clash of generations and traditions…It’s very much worth reading.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “By revealing the insidious prejudice of a man as seemingly upright as Atticus, Lee uncloaks the malignant hatred, anger, and fear that have made the South a land of terror for African Americans…This is a daring, raw, intimate, and incendiary social exposé.”

  — Booklist