To Kill a Mockingbird Will Never Be the Same

To Kill a Mockingbird Will Never Be the Sameby Rich SmithAt a party recently, a woman told me that she was afraid to read Harper Lee's new book because she—like Jennifer Love Hewitt and many other people—had named one of her children Atticus. I was not surprised to hear this. Americans treat Lee's first book, To Kill a Mockingbird, as their secular bible and Atticus Finch as their secular Jesus (or at least high-school English departments do). But this woman had read the news reports