Mockingbird Next Door
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Washington Post
"There are many reasons to be grateful for The Mockingbird Next Door, Marja Mills's wonderful memoir of Harper Lee and her sister....Sympathetic and respectful it may be, but The Mockingbird Next Door is no sycophantic puff piece. It is a zesty account of two women living on their own terms yet always guided by the strong moral compass instilled in them by their father.... It is also an atmospheric tale of changing small-town America; of an unlikely, intergenerational friendship between the young author and her elderly subjects; of journalistic integrity; and of grace and fortitude.... Mills doesn't avoid prickly issues, but she approaches them obliquely and accepts partial answers. Despite her enervating illness, Mills's writing is energetic. The Mockingbird Next Door is warm yet wistful, a lament for the books Harper Lee never wrote. It ends on an elegiac note, since by the time Mills was able to complete it, the Lees were fading fast, in separate assisted-living facilities. The world she depicts is sadly gone, but--lucky for us--she caught it just in time."
People
"[Marja Mills] has written an intimate, moving book about a rare talent."
NPR Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan:
"Charming . . . The Mockingbird Next Door offers a rich sense of the daily texture of the Lee sisters' lives . . . The world that Mills was invited into over a decade ago has disappeared: both Alice (now 102) and Harper Lee (now 88) are in nursing homes, memories faded. Fortunately, in Mills, the sisters found a genteel family chronicler knocking at their door at the eleventh hour."
O, The Oprah Magazine
"Mills has done what no writer before her could: She got Harper Lee to open up about her life, her work, and why she never wrote another book."
Vanity Fair
"Hot Type: The Mockingbird Sings: More important than these answers, however, is the voice of Lee herself--and her message, which we still need to hear."
"In telling their story in The Mockingbird Next Door, Mills writes with the amazement of one who feels kissed by fate. We in turn are blessed with an intimate portrait of Lee."
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Southern Living
"Reading The Mockingbird Next Door is like opening a window into Harper Lee's private world. As the window closes on the last page, we're left with nostalgia for one of literature's greatest talents and the feeling we had the very first time we read her remarkable novel."
"Another real discovery ... This intrepid journalist ... learned more about the stories behind To Kill a Mockingbird and Harper Lee than anyone before, after or since."
Good Housekeeping
"This glimpse of a rare bird is delightful."
BookPageMARJA MILLS is a former reporter and feature writer for the Chicago Tribune, where she was a member of the staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for a 2001 series about O'Hare Airport entitled "Gateway to Gridlock."
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