Hits me where I live.

Enjoyed it more this time around! I found the ending a little too ponderous but I think the tension was successfully sustained throughout.

"You've cheated me in a way that's inexpressible, but don't let it worry you, because the joke is entirely on me. You're the only person I think I've every fully trusted and now I'm done for."

So I don't have a visceral affection for Atticus Finch as a civil rights hero from childhood, and there are parts of the ending that are low-key (high-key?) infuriating, but overall it made me feel a lot in my heart place. Despite it being in a rougher shape than it should be (something that I think is a disservice on the publishers' part) you can see the seed of what will become To Kill a Mockingbird. I also enjoy Harper Lee's humor, which makes the angry parts of it more notable. Honestly, it made Harper Lee infinitely more interesting to me as a writer, to know that she had this well of rage inside her. Idk man.

What did I just read.

Greene's just too good, even with the residual creepy orientalism, which with me usually results to an insurmountable revulsion. There's a lacerating quality to his prose that leaves no one off the hook. In the game called imperialism, hands never get clean.