Mockingbird in Monroeville
This year To Kill a Mockingbird turns 50. Initially, Harper Lee’s novel didn’t get the warmest reception from her neighbors ? after all, she was depicting her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Anna Boiko-Weyrauch travels to the real-life “Maycomb” to see if that’s changed.
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