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Ruth's Journey

The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

by Donald McCaig

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Before Tara, before Scarlett and Rhett, before the war that would divide a nation... there was Ruth. Ruth's Journey , authorized by the Margaret Mitchell Estate, brings magnificently to life one of the most beloved characters in literature: Mammy from Gone with the Wind. "Her story began with a miracle." On the island of Saint-Domingue, a French colony consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivor - a beautiful little black girl. Upon discovering her, Captain Henri Fournier brings the child home and is pleased to see that his new wife, Solange, is instantly enchanted by the girl. "We shall name you Ruth," she says. When the Fourniers flee the island, they take the child with them to start a new life in the bustling American city of Savannah, a life in which Ruth serves as Solange's companion, comforter - and slave. Solange tutors Ruth in the finer points of deportment and etiquette even as her own ascent into Savannah society takes more than one unexpected turn. As a young woman, Ruth experiences love, marriage, childbirth - but also unspeakable loss and trauma. When Solange gives birth to a daughter, Ellen, it is Ruth - now Mammy - who nurtures, instructs, and safeguards the child, at her side every single day of Ellen's life. Ellen's unexpected choice of husband, the rough Irishman Gerald O'Hara, takes Ruth to the up-country cotton plantation called Tara and begins a new chapter in her life as Mammy to a new generation of O'Hara girls. She and Ellen turn a broken-down farm into a gracious home, a fitting place to entertain the other county families = the Wilkses, the Tarletons, the Fontaines…they all enjoy the hospitality of Tara, especially the county's young men when Ellen's unruly eldest daughter, Scarlett, blossoms into young womanhood. In the hands of acclaimed novelist Donald McCaig, Ruth's story is far more than a companion to those of her masters, she exists independently of their gaze and is given an unforgettable voice of her own. She is a rock in the river of time, holding tight to all those under her care, and to the memory of all those who have been lost to her. Ruth's life parallels America's transformation from former colonial outpost to vibrant young nation grappling with a divided soul and a bloody destiny. This spellbinding novel of fortitude, heartbreak, and indomitable will is a tale that stands on its own, but that also sheds a welcome new light on Margaret Mitchell's unforgettable classic, Gone with the Wind.

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"Ruth's imagined life should be fascinating - rescued from certain death on Saint-Domingue, plunged into the American slave system, and finally positioned as Miss Scarlett's Mammy - yet McCaig instead simply uses Ruth as a lens through which to view a dramatic swath of history." - Kirkus "McCaig's prose is gorgeous." - Houston Chronicle

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Donald McCaig is the award-winning author of Canaan and Jacob's Ladder and the winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. He was chosen by the Margaret Mitchell estate to write Rhett Butler's People, an authorized sequel to Gone with the Wind.

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RUTH'S JOURNEY

The authorized novel of mammy from margaret mitchell's gone with the wind.

by Donald McCaig ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 14, 2014

Ruth laments, “I done lost most them I loved, and most my beloveds die ugly,” but this is the tale of Mammy, not Ruth.

Authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, this historical novel takes up the story of Mammy, one of the most beloved minor characters in Gone With the Wind . 

McCaig’s ( Canaan , 2007, etc.) latest serves as a prequel not only to Mitchell’s classic, but also to his own Rhett Butler’s People (2007). Ruth’s story actually begins with her first mistress’ story. Parisian heiress Solange Escarlette marries Augustin Fornier, the owner of a Caribbean sugar plantation. She soon discovers that her husband is rather ineffectual and that a slave revolt has reduced the prospects of the Sucarie du Jardin. Solange reveals herself to be both unsentimental and savvy. She saves the family’s fortunes; repositions them in Savannah, Georgia; and, rather incidentally, takes a young slave girl into her household. Indeed, Solange is a vivid, vivacious woman whose tale is bewitching, but, alas, we must leave her to see through Ruth’s eyes soon enough. Ruth’s imagined life should be fascinating—rescued from certain death on Saint-Domingue, plunged into the American slave system, and finally positioned as Miss Scarlett’s Mammy—yet McCaig instead simply uses Ruth as a lens through which to view a dramatic swath of history. Events both cataclysmic and quotidian swirl around Ruth—everything from the Haitian revolution and John Brown’s Rebellion to Miss Scarlett's first menstrual period. Yet Ruth’s own manifold troubles pass quickly, presumably to afford more time to her witnessing of events in drawing rooms and dueling fields. Gifted with second sight, Ruth sees mists around people not long for this earthly realm, but more often than not, her talent foreshadows the passings of masters, mistresses and their children. 

Pub Date: Oct. 14, 2014

ISBN: 978-1-4516-4353-4

Page Count: 384

Publisher: Atria

Review Posted Online: Aug. 24, 2014

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 2014

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by Kristin Hannah ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 3, 2015

Still, a respectful and absorbing page-turner.

Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II.

In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon. This trajectory is interrupted when she receives an invitation to return to France to attend a ceremony honoring  passeurs : people who aided the escape of others during the war. Cut to spring, 1940: Viann has said goodbye to husband Antoine, who's off to hold the Maginot line against invading Germans. She returns to tending her small farm, Le Jardin, in the Loire Valley, teaching at the local school and coping with daughter Sophie’s adolescent rebellion. Soon, that world is upended: The Germans march into Paris and refugees flee south, overrunning Viann’s land. Her long-estranged younger sister, Isabelle, who has been kicked out of multiple convent schools, is sent to Le Jardin by Julien, their father in Paris, a drunken, decidedly unpaternal Great War veteran. As the depredations increase in the occupied zone—food rationing, systematic looting, and the billeting of a German officer, Capt. Beck, at Le Jardin—Isabelle’s outspokenness is a liability. She joins the Resistance, volunteering for dangerous duty: shepherding downed Allied airmen across the  Pyrenees to Spain. Code-named the Nightingale, Isabelle will rescue many before she's captured. Meanwhile, Viann’s journey from passive to active resistance is less dramatic but no less wrenching. Hannah vividly demonstrates how the Nazis, through starvation, intimidation and barbarity both casual and calculated, demoralized the French, engineering a community collapse that enabled the deportations and deaths of more than 70,000 Jews. Hannah’s proven storytelling skills are ideally suited to depicting such cataclysmic events, but her tendency to sentimentalize undermines the gravitas of this tale.

Pub Date: Feb. 3, 2015

ISBN: 978-0-312-57722-3

Page Count: 448

Publisher: St. Martin's

Review Posted Online: Nov. 19, 2014

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2014

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by Roy Jacobsen ; translated by Don Bartlett & Don Shaw ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 7, 2020

A deeply satisfying novel, both sensuously vivid and remarkably poignant.

Norwegian novelist Jacobsen folds a quietly powerful coming-of-age story into a rendition of daily life on one of Norway’s rural islands a hundred years ago in a novel that was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.

Ingrid Barrøy, her father, Hans, mother, Maria, grandfather Martin, and slightly addled aunt Barbro are the owners and sole inhabitants of Barrøy Island, one of numerous small family-owned islands in an area of Norway barely touched by the outside world. The novel follows Ingrid from age 3 through a carefree early childhood of endless small chores, simple pleasures, and unquestioned familial love into her more ambivalent adolescence attending school off the island and becoming aware of the outside world, then finally into young womanhood when she must make difficult choices. Readers will share Ingrid’s adoration of her father, whose sense of responsibility conflicts with his romantic nature. He adores Maria, despite what he calls her “la-di-da” ways, and is devoted to Ingrid. Twice he finds work on the mainland for his sister, Barbro, but, afraid she’ll be unhappy, he brings her home both times. Rooted to the land where he farms and tied to the sea where he fishes, Hans struggles to maintain his family’s hardscrabble existence on an island where every repair is a struggle against the elements. But his efforts are Sisyphean. Life as a Barrøy on Barrøy remains precarious. Changes do occur in men’s and women’s roles, reflected in part by who gets a literal chair to sit on at meals, while world crises—a war, Sweden’s financial troubles—have unexpected impact. Yet the drama here occurs in small increments, season by season, following nature’s rhythm through deaths and births, moments of joy and deep sorrow. The translator’s decision to use roughly translated phrases in conversation—i.e., “Tha’s goen’ nohvar” for "You’re going nowhere")—slows the reading down at first but ends up drawing readers more deeply into the world of Barrøy and its prickly, intensely alive inhabitants.

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ISBN: 978-1-77196-319-0

Page Count: 272

Publisher: Biblioasis

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Donald McCaig is the award-winning author of Canaan as well as Jacob’s Ladder , designated “the best Civil War novel ever written” by the Virginia Quarterly . It won the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Library of Virginia Award for Fiction. He was chosen by the Margaret Mitchell estate to write Rhett Butler’s People , an authorized sequel to Gone with the Wind. He lives on a sheep farm in the mountains near Williamsville, Virginia, where he writes fiction, essays, and poetry, and trains and trials sheep dogs.

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• Publisher: Atria Books (August 4, 2015)
• Length: 400 pages
• ISBN13: 9781451643541

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“Exquisitely imagined, deeply researched, Donald McCaig's Ruth's Journey brings to the foreground the most enigmatic and fascinating figure in Gone With the Wind. This is a brave work of literary empathy by a writer at the height of his powers, who demonstrates a magisterial understanding of the period, its clashing cultures and its heartbreaking crises.”

– Geraldine Brooks, author of March

“Rich with sympathyand telling prose…McCaig’s prequel proves engaging and satisfying,”

– Richmond Times-Dispatch

"A much-needed fleshing out of one of the original book’s three major characters."

– Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Praise for Rhett Butler's People "Pierces the mystery in which Mitchell shrouded Rhett Butler... The new story has its own integrity... [A] fine novel."

– The New York Times

"A must-read for Gone With the Wind fans."

"McCaig creates a convincting backstory and has a real feel for men and the tensions between fathers, sons, friends and soldiers, aqs well as the nuances of Southern honor... The novel focuses on Rhett's point of view and explains exactly where he got his dash."

– USA Today

"A work of genuine literary aspiration that attempts to fill in the psychological blanks behind one of the most captivating enigmas in romantic fiction."

– The Guardian

"An engrossing update of Gone with the Wind that fans of the original will definitely give a damn about."

– Publishers Weekly

More praise for the novels of Donald McCaig "Captures the details of wartime Virginia with stunning force... Think Gone With the Wind ; think Cold Mountain ."

"This is a tale of courage, cowardice, death, life, growth, war, violence, redemption, and finally, love and compassion... A gentle compelling story."

– The Washington Post

"The finest novel about the Civil War ever written."

– Virginia Quarterly

"McCaig's prose is gorgeous...One of the best Civil War novels...Stunning."

– Houston Chronicle

" [McCaig] combines a farmer's eye for the natural world, a poet's ear for language, and the narrative flair of a bred-in-the-bone storyteller. The result is a novel that is credible, compelling, and humane."

"McCaig has spun pure gold."

– Dayton Daily News

"Tantalizing. A flawless orchestration... Masterful... A model of concision, unshowy research and the easy authority of a novelist work with material he intuitively gets."

– Washington Post Book World

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Publisher's summary

Authorized by the Margaret Mitchell Estate, here is the first-ever prequel to one of the most beloved and best-selling novels of all time, Gone with the Wind . The critically acclaimed author of Rhett Butler's People magnificently recounts the life of Mammy, one of literature's greatest supporting characters, from her days as a slave girl to the outbreak of the Civil War.

"Her story began with a miracle." 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 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 Ruth's life as shaped by her strong-willed mistress and other larger-than-life personalities she encounters in the South: Jehu Glen, a free black man with whom Ruth falls madly in love; the shabbily genteel family that first hires Ruth as Mammy; Solange's daughter Ellen and the rough Irishman, Gerald O'Hara, whom Ellen chooses to marry; the Butler family of Charleston and their shocking connection to Mammy Ruth; and finally Scarlett O'Hara - the irrepressible Southern belle Mammy raises from birth. As we witness the difficult coming of age felt by three generations of women, gifted storyteller Donald McCaig reveals a portrait of Mammy that is both nuanced and poignant, at once a proud woman and a captive, and a strict disciplinarian who has never experienced freedom herself. But despite the cruelties of a world that has decreed her a slave, 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 Mitchell's unforgettable classic, Gone with the Wind .

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• Overall 3 out of 5 stars
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• David M. Jacobs

Good addition to the GWTW series.

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

The beginning was slow and at times hard to follow. The first part of the book, was told from Scarlett o hara grandma solange's pov. A bit boring until ruth or Mammy get old enough to tell her story. There was also a lot of death, wives dying and children dying and heartbreak galore.

If you’ve listened to books by Donald McCaig before, how does this one compare?

I personal liked Rhett's story better but that was because I knew the chracters.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

I think she did well, crossing the many different chracter that were in the book.the evolution of Miss Katie into Scarlett seemed disjointed in the scheme of things. From GWTW I gathered Scarlett didn't like horses touch and this book has her jumping and out racing Beatrice Tarlelton.

Was Ruth's Journey worth the listening time?

I don't know if I would read it if I wasn't a GWTW fan.

Any additional comments?

The most interesting part was when Ruth was in Charleston. I won't give away the spoilers but it broke my heart when she was on the auction block.

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• jameela abdulghani

Not for those who follow canon.

Did the writer read Gone with the Wind, or did they simply take elements of it? The Mitchell estate could not have read this whole book. Overall, this book is disjointed. If they were going to write this book from the character's perspective, it should have been that way from the start. Even if they only wanted to tell the story, they should have had at least one sentence about the main character before jumping into the background. If they were going to have part of the narrative in slave English they should have done it from the beginning or not ar all. Also they change important points. Scarlett never would have behaved the way she did if Mammy was at the barbecue. I like some of the story lines of what might have been before Scarlett was born, but the writer made Grandma Robillard spirited without making her lovable. The voiceover artist has a decent voice, but has no idea how to pronounce Eulalie, who is prominent in this book. My personal ire is that she did not pronounce Godet properly either. The people producing this should be ashamed.

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It Took Me Back

I loved the story. Mamie is one of my favorite characters of all time so to have her history is needed. My only regret is that I did not read this book before Gone With the Wind. This book does leave me wanting more. With all of the characters in the book there must be more.

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• Anonymous User

Too condescending

I realize this was written from a slave girl's perspective but the use of language was a put down and far too primitive for a girl who also spoke some French as well.

• angela k calloway

I LOVED this book and LOVED the reader’s excellent shift in accent and voice. Just wonderful!!!

The tie in to GWTW was superb.

From Ruth’s upbringing and her life journey to Tara in it’s “glory days” is a perfect prequel to GWTW.

• Douglas Wochna

Worth the read!

I did expect long passages about how Ruth obtained her etiquette knowledge. It was enjoyable reading a different point of the happenings at Tara.

I read The Black Pirate right before this, which happens to leave off right before Napoleon flattens Santa Domingo. This story of Ruth just by chance picks up where that book had left off! This was such an excellent story, the narration was very good, and the book leaves off where the next one will pick up. I took a chance, and I'm so glad I did with this book. what a beautiful insight into such an important character.

• Michelle Andersen

The details… ❤️

I absolutely was consumed by this book. I have always loved the character of Mami how traveled through the story, and to find out her history, her life, her thoughts, her feelings, and what she truly stood for, was very invigorating. I highly recommend this book, if you have enjoyed the history of the Civil War And the characters of gone with the wind.

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Ruth's Journey Hardcover – 23 Oct. 2014

• Print length 384 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Simon & Schuster UK
• Publication date 23 Oct. 2014
• ISBN-10 1471139190
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“Ruth’s Journey,” by Donald McCaig

Donald McCaig

Reviewed by Claire Hamner Matturro

What was Donald McCaig thinking when he undertook writing Ruth’s Journey (Atria Books 2014), the so-called prequel to Gone with the Wind ?

First, it’s a bold idea to tackle any prequel, let alone one designed to set the stage for the second most popular book ever sold in America. But if you are a 74-year-old 21 st century white male, it’s an even bolder move to structure the prequel as the story of an enslaved black woman in the decades before the War Between the States.

McCaig is no stranger to this business, having written Rhett Butler’s People (St. Martin’s Press 2007), which served as both prequel and sequel to Gone with the Wind . So, at least to some degree, he knew what he was getting into. But Rhett Butler’s People is a story about a privileged white man written by another privileged white man. In Ruth’s Journey , McCaig strains his imagination and the bounds of his research to cross gender, servitude, and racial lines.

So, did McCaig pull it off with Ruth’s Journey ?

It depends upon who you ask, of course, and in the end, you the reader should give it a fair read and see what you think.

But, be forewarned. Be prepared to be disappointed.

Setting aside for the moment that Ruth’s Journey doesn’t have the dynamic prose, edge-of-your-chair storytelling or vivid details of Gone with the Wind , McCaig’s story is supposed to be about Ruth, better known as Mammy. We know it is supposed to be about Mammy because the cover of the book states: “ The authorized novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind .”

But it’s not really about Mammy, a/k/a Ruth. Sure, there’s a small segment in which Ruth gets married and moves to Charleston. There, she and her husband become involved with the historical figure of Denmark Vesey and his aborted slave revolt, predictably to a tragic end. That small part about Ruth’s life in Charleston totals out at 55 pages. The book is 372 pages. Which means only roughly one-sixth of the book is actually about Ruth.

The first chapter hints that Ruth herself is not going to dominate the storyline, no matter what the book cover says. After nineteen pages of a cursory tale about a French couple sent to violence-torn Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti), a young Ruth finally appears in a sprinkle of three paragraphs at the end of the chapter. And even then, McCaig makes no attempt to show or to tell how the child feels, dripping as she is with the blood of her slaughtered mother. Instead, he tells the readers about the white guy’s reaction.

Who then is the book actually and specifically about if not Ruth? That would be Scarlett O’Hara’s mother Ellen (briefly) and grandmother Solange (mostly), with a dose of Scarlett’s grandfather tossed in as a plot necessity given that he’s mentioned in Gone with the Wind and somebody had to be Ellen’s father.

Mind you, there’s nothing inherently wrong with a prequel predominantly focused on Scarlett’s mother and grandmother. These are interesting women, each strong and conflicted and challenged in turn as McCaig does a decent job of telling their stories. But why didn’t the publisher and author just own up to this and call the book Scarlett’s People , making it a match for Donald McCaig’s other authorized Gone with the Wind prequel/sequel Rhett Butler’s People ?

It’s not just that Ruth gets so little on-stage time in the novel; it’s also that the woman called Ruth isn’t…well, she’s not Mammy, or at least not the one that Margaret Mitchell brought vividly to life in Gone with the Wind . Ruth is strangely passive and willingly subservient for most of the story. Oh, sure, (slight plot spoiler here) Ruth fights for her virtue against the drunken advances of her master (perhaps ironically portrayed as a decent kind of guy for a whiskey-guzzling, slave-owning chronic gambler). But otherwise Ruth comes dangerously close to being exactly what an auctioneer calls her in Charleston: docile.

Perhaps more than docility, there is something so ingratiating about Ruth that she is all but obsequious at times. This trait appears from the first time the readers meet Ruth as a child. Dripping with the blood of her slaughtered family, the child volunteers (with what McCaig calls “buoyant charm” no less) to milk a goat for the French soldier who finds her hiding under a basket. And, yes, slaves and other captives no doubt learn to act this way for their survival. But in Ruth’s Journey , Ruth doesn’t appear to be acting, she appears more often than not to actually be that way. Not always, mind you, but often enough to give pause.

Even when Ruth does show her inner and outer strength in conking her drunken master over the head rather than submitting to his sexual advances, she does not follow up with a quest for freedom. She simply demands that he write her a pass so that someone else can buy her as a slave. Her master doesn’t want to lose her, or so McCaig tells us, but he consents to Ruth’s demand. McCaig does not tell us why he does so, but one could infer he acts out of a sense of shame. If the man was contrite enough to give Ruth that much of an upper hand, why didn’t she demand her freedom instead of merely asking to be sold to someone else? But she doesn’t even try for freedom.

It is almost as if McCaig stuck his head in the same bucket full of moonlight-and-magnolia myths as Margaret Mitchell did, as if he never even heard of Toni Morrison’s Beloved , Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years as a Slave or read any of the nonfiction exposes of American slavery such as Eugene D. Genovese’s groundbreaking Roll, Jordon, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (Vintage 1976). Perhaps Mitchell, growing up a provincial Georgia Southern Belle in a white culture still reeling from the devastation of the War Between the States and regaled from infancy with the tales of the Glorious Lost Cause, can be excused for indulging in all that happy slave nonsense. It’s possible that in her privileged and insular Southern white upbringing, she didn’t know any better—or did not want to know better. But McCaig is a worldlier author—born and educated in Montana, the man had a successful New York City career in advertising and ties to a progressive past. He also had the advantage of another seven and a half decades of scholarly research that produced such happy-slave-myth-shattering books as Roll Jordon Roll . He should have known better!

Perhaps there is nothing wrong per se with writing a book about a more docile slave than, say, Sethe in Toni Morrison’s Beloved , but the problem with a submissive Mammy Ruth is that she is simply not the Mammy in Gone With the Wind . Without delving into plot spoilers it’s hard to explain, but let’s try one example. In Ruth’s Journey , Mammy Ruth cannot control the headstrong young Scarlett, who runs wild and does precisely what she wishes to do. In a chapter told in Ruth’s voice and titled “How I is Judas,” Ruth learns that Scarlett plans to dress as a boy and race her horse in a decidedly men-only event. Ruth doesn’t confront her or in any way try to stop her. Rather, Ruth tattles on Scarlett to Gerald O’Hara and leaves it to him to stop his headstrong daughter from ruining her reputation before she’s even old enough to moon after Ashley Wilkes.

Yet, in Gone With the Wind , on at least two occasions where Scarlett and Mammy butt heads, Mammy is the clear victor. When Scarlett refuses to pre-eat before the Wilkes barbeque, Mammy is the more powerful personality and in the end, Scarlett does exactly as Mammy tells her to do. Later, when Scarlett determines to go to Atlanta to seek the tax money for Tara from Rhett, she tells Mammy she is going alone. But Mammy insists that she will go with Scarlett. Again, Scarlett capitulates to Mammy’s demands, even though she thinks she might as well have a bloodhound on her trail as to have Mammy.

There are these moments when Ruth does show spirit, as when she refuses to fetch water for a visiting child or when she and another slave sabotage the advances of a husband-seeking woman stalking Ruth’s widowed master. These interludes suggest what Ruth’s Journey could have been, but McCaig never sustains either the spirit or the momentum in such scenes.

All that happy slave/glorious lost cause mythology in Gone with the Wind has thankfully not stood the test of time (nor should it have). Now that we all pretty much know better (or should), McCaig could have debunked the myths as Sue Monk Kid does in The Invention of Wings (Viking Adult 2014), a novel touching on similar themes and history, but with a great deal more force, accuracy, and passion.

Be that as it may, the Mammy of the original novel is still no sap. And certainly she is not docile, passive or obsequious. In many ways Mitchell’s Mammy shares some traits with Scarlett: both are feisty, smart, and full of gumption. Mammy is not afraid to call Scarlett and Rhett mules or to order Scarlett about.

But in Ruth’s Journey , somehow that Mammy rarely shows up.

Here’s something else about Ruth’s Journey that is disappointing—and hard to say. It’s not written very well. This is a surprise as McCaig has repeatedly proven himself to be a very capable writer with previous books. But in Ruth’s Journey , his talent is not so obvious. There are these long strange rambling sequences that seem to have little to do with Ruth or the plot and which toss out multiple characters for no apparent reason, yet go on and on. Then, when the single most horrible thing that could ever happen to Ruth does happen, McCaig gives the event less than a page—six paragraphs to be exact.

It’s not just this irritatingly uneven plotting that spoils the book, but Ruth’s Journey has sloppy prose, clichés, neck jarring transitions, and a superficiality that in spots makes it read more like a synopsis than a novel. And while the last smidgen is told in Ruth’s own voice, most of the novel is told in an inconsistent omniscience point of view. The unknown but all-knowing narrator is alternatively snide, preachy, terribly bored, or glib—or just hurrying to get through with it.

And that’s finally where a lot of readers might well find themselves—hurrying to get through with this disappointing book.

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Note to those who are considering “Ruth’s Journey” as a possible read: Ms. Matturro has given a very fair commentary on the book. A friend recently gave it to me, knowing my interest in most things GWTW. As the review states, it’s got some interesting backstory ideas (Solange’s marriage to Scarlett’s grandfather, Ellen’s youth and early life with the spirited Gerald O’Hara) but the rest consists of too many background characters & events, covered in too little detail. It’s plain confusing at some points. Most of all, Matturro’s description of the treatment given to Ruth—who should be the main character—is, sadly, accurate. There is little evidence of the “Mammy” we’ve come to love in the woman Ruth. With all due respect to the author, who has produced other excellent works….this one is of only mild interest to “Wind” fans. It really should have been rethought before publishing it.

I realize this comment is 3 years overdue, but I just stumbled upon RJ and had to reply. This review is excellent; Rhett Butlers People was a mild disappointment, but Ruth’s Journey is a full fledged insult. If one decides to write a prequel to one of the most beloved and deeply researched works in American literature it would be to ones credit to have actually read the source material. The author fails to assume his reader actually expects RJ to contain accurate timelines in accordance with GWTW, equivalent character development, cohesive story lines, or at the very least accurate physical descriptions of the characters (Phillippe Robillard is described as inheriting his fathers blue eyes in RJ, but in the source material much is made of his BLACK “snapping eyes”) In the end this work, like Rhett Butlers People, milks any success it has off of the back of one of the most beautifully written works in our literary past, but in and of itself is poorly conceived and badly written.

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