A posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces, offering a fresh perspective on the literary mind of Harper Lee.
Welcome ... Each story illuminates Lee’s quintessential talents ... [A] scintillating sense of humor ... Reinforces Lee’s indelible voice, contributing a rewarding addition and resource to the slim canon of her literary legacy.
A conversational, even gossipy voice attending to amusingly eccentric characters. They are charming, the stuff of choice dinner-party anecdotes and the humorous shorts popular with midcentury magazine readers, but not especially substantial ... Most of the nonfiction in The Land of Sweet Forever is even more dispensable.
Unoffending and slight ... The stories are prep work ... There is more charm than conflict in these sketches, and the earliest glimpses of Scout, Atticus and other charismatic residents of Maycomb County may help to placate a disillusioned fan base.
