num_pages: 210
description: In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes the world created in GONE WITH THE WIND, a work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Taking sharp aim at the romanticized, whitewashed mythology perpetrated by this southern classic, Randall has ingeniously conceived a multilayered, emotionally complex tale of her own - that of Cynara, the mulatto half-sister, who, beautiful and brown and born into slavery, manages to break away from the damaging world of the Old South to emerge into full life as a daughter, a lover, a mother, a victor. THE WIND DONE GONE is a passionate love story, a wrenching portrait of a tangled mother-daughter relationship, and a book that "celebrates a people's emancipation not only from bondage but also from history and myth, custom and stereotype" (San Antonio Express-News).
language: English
title: The Wind Done Gone
titlecomplete: The Wind Done Gone
characters: Beauty (Alice Randall), Miss. Priss, Mealy Mouth, Mrs. Garlic, R, Corinne, Cynara "Cinnamon or Cindy", Dreamy Gentleman, Planter, Cyrus, Other, Mammy Abigail, Garlic, Jeems, The Congressman Adam Conyers
genres: Retellings, Civil War, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, African American, War, Adult, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 2142
places: Atlanta, Georgia
publisher: Mariner Books