Go Set a Watchman, written prior to To Kill a Mockingbird, details the events of southern living during the 1960’s as Jean Louise returns to Maycomb to discover her community has transformed. We are taken through her personal coming of age experience as she discovers her own identity and begins to open her eyes to the changes her home town has made. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, as a similar topic regarding race persists within this novel. Memories from Jean Louise’s childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. “Go Set a Watchman" perfectly captures the feelings of a young woman, in a painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past. Although I found the novel to be slow going and have a slightly unstructured plot, you are taken through a journey that can be guised only by one’s conscience.