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Gone with the Wind Scarlett O'Hara grows from an insufferable spoiled twerp into an insufferable, amoral, high agency busybody over the course of a series of hardships and catastrophes that roughly parallel the fate of the south itself. This book is a bit of an odd duck, maybe even an odd platypus. Simultaneously, it's a frivolous romance almost in the fashion of Harlequin, a deep and serious character study of a complex woman coming of age, and an epic of earth shaking demographic and economic changes told from the opposite side of the fence. I mostly don't like romance or southern culture, but I somehow could not help enjoying the hell out of this book. It's a totally alien set of values, motivations, desires, and scenes, yet it managed to feel immediate and meaningful in a way I can't fully explain. My best guess is that it's just a case of a writer bringing intense pathos and care to a subject. You can't deny its power, even if you don't share its sentimentality or believe its dynamics. Recommended.

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