Waiting On Wednesday: Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is: 

 

Go Set a Watchman

Harper Lee

Harper

Publication Date: July 14, 2015

Summary:

An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.

Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her.

Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee's enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.

This is one of the biggest and most highly anticipated books in (my) living memory. Dare I say, even bigger than Harry Potter? ...Nah, but very, very close! The hype, intrigue, and turmoil surrounding this book's release is unreal. And I can't wait to get my hands on a copy!

How about you? Are you going to inhale
Go Set a Watchman as soon as it's released like I am?