As the novel opens, Cynara visits her estranged Mammy, who is dying at Tata. Throughout, Randall lifts characters and plot lines directlyįrom Mitchell's novel, though she tweaks the names - Scarlett is ''Other'' Rhett Butler is ''R.'' Tara becomes ''Tata.'' Randall's own plot inventionsĬonsist mostly of expository back story: Cynara, sold away from Tata as an adolescent, is now the 28-year-old mistress of none other than R. Randall'sīook, which picks up about a month after ''Gone With the Wind'' left off, is made up of the stilted diary of this overlooked woman, Cynara. Alas, the legal battle surrounding this first novel is more interesting than theīook itself, which never rises to the promise of its clever, controversial premise - that Scarlett O'Hara was half sister to a slave, the illegitimate daughter of Scarlett's father and her beloved Mammy. Randall's parodic sequel to ''Gone with the Wind,'' it was a victory for the author and for First Amendment rights. Hen a United States Court of Appeals overturned an injunction, won by the Margaret Mitchell estate, that would have prevented the publication of Alice
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