I have some reservations too, but not about whether Harper Lee really did or did not want to publish this book.
Instead, I'm concerned about the possible implications of these bits and pieces from the article linked in the first post:
Quote:
"In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called 'Go Set a Watchman'... It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman..."
Scout has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father, Atticus... She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her father's attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood...
According to the publisher, the book will be released as she first wrote it, with no revisions...
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And so my concern is, did Harper Lee remain 100% faithful to her original, unpublished, manuscript of
Go Set a Watchman when she crafted
To Kill a Mockingbird? Or did she change characterizations, relationships, settings, etc. as she wrote her new book?
To me, the latter seems reasonably likely, since she wasn't intending for
Go Set a Watchman to be published. And even if she at the time was thinking that it might one day be published, it would seem to me she still wouldn't have had any reservations about changing things up, figuring she could always edit the previous manuscript if it came to that.
Granted, this is all pure speculation and perhaps just a bunch of hand wringing for no good reason. I'd just hate for it to be a sequel that doesn't gel with it's predecessor.
Either way I know what I'll be reading come July.