You either know the story, or, if you’re like me, have lived in blind ignorance to the book’s existence. Wildly popular and taught in high schools, there doesn’t seem to be much to say about this book in the year 2020. To be honest, even though this is my first time reading To Kill a Mockingbird, I’m a little hesitant about giving it a review. But I also have to be happy that this is a book still worth reading, for it is a bona fide classic - a novel so pitch-perfect that a second reading might do it even more justice. We still have racial prejudice, perhaps not on the same scale as it was during the Great Depression in the American South, which is when and where this novel is set. However, it is with some sadness and trepidation that I must say that this book is still as relevant as it was during the Civil Rights era in which it was originally published. It’s too late to review that particular edition - I can’t download from NetGalley in this pandemic for one thing (long story) and I already bought the book for my Kindle before finding this piece of news out. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the original publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, and I can tell you that an anniversary edition of the book is on its way from looking at available book titles in NetGalley.
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