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Folks are very interested in Harper Lee's book and totally overreacting to it because To Kill a mockingbird is in the literary canon..

Personally i think she never released it (a) because she more or less resented the success of MockingBird and (b) actually wrote the draft for this book BEFORE she wrote Mocking Bird and when she submitted the editor askes her to change the story to a child perspective. In the process she clearly revisioned the character of Attitcus and his relationship with his daughter, basically its an entirely different set of characters. I understand this "new" book is about adult Scout trying to reconcile with her elderly father and deal with his racism! That is about the polar opposite of the iconic Atticus so perhaps she never released this book because its not coherent?

Its been said her lawyer found a draft and "convinced" Lee to publish it but im skeptical that Lee was more coerced than convinced. If this book is as different than Mocking Bird then it almost makes sense why Lee wouldn't have released it..

If anything we may see Mocking Bird revisioned out of the canon now that apparently Atticus isn't who we thought he is.. or since the books were written in reverse chronological order thatperhaps we can say he aged to become a man we didn't expect him to become