The Book I Have Read Every Summer Since I Was Twelve

I first read To Kill a Mockingbird at 12 and Atticus Finch was a hero without complication. I read it again at 18 and found the novel more complicated than I had remembered. I read it again at 24 and began to see what Scout's narration hides as much as it reveals. Now I read it every summer and have a different conversation with Atticus each time. The novel has not changed. The argument about what it asks of its white readers is ongoing and I am still in it.