What is To Kill a Mockingbird about?

A small town in Maycomb, Alabama is torn apart by racial tension when Atticus Finch takes on the legal defense of a black man who has been falsely charged with raping a white woman. Narrated by Finch's youngest child, Scout, the reader views through a child's eyes the ugliness of prejudice during the 1930's.

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