Harper Lee’s short fiction, soon to be published as part of a collection called “The Land of Sweet Forever,” shows her experimenting with characters and themes that would later appear in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
When her father died, the author of “Americanah” produced a slim work of nonfiction. When her mother died, she poured her grief into a sprawling 416-page novel.
“This is my most grown up novel,” Adichie said. “Obviously I’m older than when I wrote the others. But it’s more that I feel myself made new by experience. I’m aware of how fleeting everything is.”
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