Go Set a Watchman

I'm still thinking about this book so for now I'll just leave this rambling paragraph as my review:

This book had much too much heaviness for me to read it as if it were any other book. It drags along with it the history of To Kill a Mockingbird; the incredibly large presence that book has in our society and the ways we are taught to interpret it; the incredible length of time between TKAM and Go Set a Watchman, and what that implies about the circumstances of its publication; the fact that it's basically a draft, and that it's being published and marketed as a novel proper; and the real-life heaviness of life being black in the 30s, when TKAM is set, the civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s when TKAM was published and GSAW is set, and the #BlackLivesMatter movement today, when GSAW was published, and how novels like TKAM shape the way we perceive civil rights in our society then and now, and that our reaction as a society to GSAW says so much about the way we see racism and racist people and/or people who commit racist actions or say racist things.