Ruth's Journey: A Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

ISBN: 1451643543

Author: McCaig, Donald

Condition: Used

From the national bestselling author of Rhett Butlers People, the exquisitely imagined, deeply researched (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March) authorized prequel to Gone with the Wind following the epic story of one of literatures greatest characters-Mammy-magnificently recounting her life from her infancy in Haiti and days as a slave in the South, to raising Scarlett at Tara and the outbreak of the Civil War.The only authorized prequel to Margaret Mitchells Gone with the Wind-the unforgettable story of Mammy. On a Caribbean island consumed by the flames of revolution, an infant girl falls under the care of two French émigrés, Henri and Solange Fournier, who take the beautiful child they call Ruth to the bustling American city of Savannah.What follows is the sweeping tale of Ruths life as shaped first by her strong-willed mistress, and then by Solanges daughter Ellen and Gerald OHara, the rough Irishman Ellen chooses to marry; the Butler family of Charleston and their unexpected connection to Mammy Ruth; and finally Scarlett OHara-the irrepressible Southern belle Mammy raises from birth. As we witness the lives of three generations of women, gifted storyteller Donald McCaig reveals a nuanced portrait of Mammy, at once a proud woman and a captive, a strict disciplinarian who has never experienced freedom herself. Through it all, Mammy endures, a rock in the river of time.Set against the backdrop of the South from the 1820s until the dawn of the Civil War, here is a remarkable story of fortitude, heartbreak, and indomitable will-and a tale that will forever illuminate your reading of Margaret Mitchells Gone with the Wind.