To Kill a Mockingbird

The story takes place in the 1930s during the Great Depression in the small fictional town of Maycomb in Alabama. Scout describes it as:

"an old tired town when I first knew it", summer heat and slow pace of life. She notes, "There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County".