Huguette Clark was probably the wealthiest woman whom history forgot. Heir to a copper fortune and raised in a mansion on Fifth Avenue of 42 rooms, with only four family members, and a father old enough to be her grandfather, it seems she was more than bound to become a least a little different from…
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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Go Set a Watchman is the long-awaited successor to Harper Lee’s masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. In it, we find Jean Louise as a New Yorker and young adult, “easy to look at and easy to be with most of the time, but…afflicted with a restlessness of spirit.” She must contend with her Aunt’s assertive…
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
With layers of metaphor, this novel redefines prejudice and contrasts, through children’s eyes, the barriers adults create. It reevaluates beliefs and their roots, and seeks trinkets in knotted trees.