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dixiegrrrrl

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1. There are many concerns about this "new" book.

Reply to CrispyQ (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2015, 02:54 PM

Feb 2015

Carter is Truman Capote's cousin by marriage,,ie: she married a cousin of Capote.
Many friends of Ms. Lee( who is blind and deaf now) are complaining that Carter is preventing visits to her.
Before she died at age 103 in 2014, Harper's sister Alice had always taken care of legal and financial matters for Ms. Lee.

There is some suspicion about Carter's involvement, and that this "new" book is appearing so soon after Alice Lee's death.
And judging from everything I have read and heard about Harper Lee's attitudes, that quote about the book does not at all sound like her.

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