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Bookstores Anticipate Big Sales with New Book

BEND, OR -- "Go Set A Watchman," the sequel to the Pulitzer Prize winning "To Kill A Mockingbird," goes on sale Tuesday. Barns and Noble and other bookstores will open early so anxious readers can get their hands on the widely anticipated book, sooner. Harper Lee wrote "Go Set A Watchman" before "Mockingbird," but it was just released by the publisher. 

 

Anita Bond, Assistant Manager at the Bend Barnes and Noble, tells KBND this is a literary event. "It's like Star Wars! Something that was old, it came out so many years ago, and yet here comes this new book. It's like introducing all these younger people to this great author and this great book, hopefully."

 

She adds, "Just the whole allure of it. The fact that this woman has only published one book - and it was such an iconic book - and that it was made into a great movie - and it was just a great iconic movie, as well. I just think that, in and of itself, is making this book highly anticipated."

 

"Go Set A Watchman" centers around the character "Scout" in the 1950s, 20 years after "To Kill A Mockingbird," as she travels from New York to visit her aging father Atticus Finch in Alabama. Some critics have expressed displeasure that Atticus Finch shows more racist tendencies in the new book. 

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