[Magdalen] (Katie Sherrod) A racist Atticus Finch is us, white people. All of us.

[Jay Weigel]

My take so far.....and I'm reserving andy judgment until I read the "new
book" in its entirety....is that the "new book" is actually some kind of
character study or something of that nature that the author did in order to
write the first book, since she apparently wrote it *before* she wrote
TKAMB. She may not have meant for it to be published at all, particularly
after the (to her) surprising success of TKAMB. But in any case, I think
there's a lot of trash talk about it by people who haven't read the whole
thing yet.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> an essay written by Katie Sherrod, a Fort Worth, TX Episcopalian, active
> in the national church, writer and former columnist for the Ft. Worth
> Telegraph.
>
>
> http://wildernessgarden.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-racist-atticus-finch-is-us-white.html
>
> thought provoking read...
>
> I only last year read TKAMB for the first time. In reading about the
> contents of the 'new book'... and reading in the papers about people who
> think that publishing it was a manipulative move on a woman no longer
> possessing her faculties and without protection since her older sister who
> was a lawyer died a few years ago... I've pondered about the 'father
> character' being, or seeming to be two different characters in the two
> books.  Katie's essay reminds me that my view will always be a bit off.
> Lynn
>