The Wind Done Gone

The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall is an unauthorized parody of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.  A parody is usually a humorous or satirical imitation of a piece of literature, but The Wind Done Gone is not the comedy that the word parody implies it would be.  There was a lot of legal controversy over the publication of this book.  The story is told from the point of view of Scarlett O’Hara’s mulatto half-sister, Cynara.  Cynara is the daughter of Scarlett’s plantation-owning father and Mammy, the slave who cared for Scarlett since she was a child.  This is a good book, but in order to really understand everything that goes on with this book you must first read Gone with the Wind.  I really enjoyed reading this book, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed reading Gone with the Wind.  Below are some links to several websites that discuss this book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Done_Gone

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/randall_url/

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18412.The_Wind_Done_Gone

http://www.alicerandall.com/wind_done_gone