Historical Fiction
Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
2014·384 pages
Authorized prequel tracing Mammy's life from her Haitian infancy through slavery in the South, her loves and losses, and raising Scarlett O'Hara before the Civil War.
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Authorized prequel tracing Mammy's life from her Haitian infancy through slavery in the South, her loves and losses, and raising Scarlett O'Hara before the Civil War.
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Set against the backdrop of the American South from the 1820s until the dawn of the Civil War, this is a remarkable story of fortitude, heartbreak, and indomitable will - and a tale that will forever illuminate the reading of Margaret Mitchell's unforgettable classic, Gone with the Wind. On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivor: an infant girl. She falls into the hands of two French emigres, Henri and S...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Romance with free Black man Jehu Glen; loves and heartbreaks across her life
Violence & gore
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Haitian Revolution attack; peril and brutality tied to slavery
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic elements
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content
Political content
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Central themes of slavery, race, and antebellum Southern society
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Life story of enslavement; forced identity loss; systemic cruelty of slavery
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