Ruth’s Journey: the Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind

Ruth’s Journey: the Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind

By Donald McCaig

374 pages

Any admirer of Gone with the Wind, will greatly enjoy this fictional account of Scarlett O’Hara Mammy Ruth’s life, which began in St. Domingue.  As a young adult, Ruth experiences love and loss along with some unexpected turns. The story leads to Scarlett O’Hara and her mischief as a child and teenager.