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The novel is a coming-of-age story set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, in the Deep South of the 1930s. It is told through the recollections of Scout Finch, who grows up with her brother Jem and their father, the lawyer Atticus Finch. When Atticus defends a Black man falsely accused of a crime, the children are confronted with racism and injustice in their community. A Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of American literature.