Suppose the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was written by Harper Lee and first published in 1960. The story takes place in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. The main character, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer who defends a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman.
Can we infer that 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is set in the future? Yes, no, or maybe?