Despite this, Cynara returns home, but arrives too late to see her mother. Cynara recalls her mother appearing ambivalent to the decision. Cynara struggles with her decision to return home to see her mother one last time because her last departure from the home plantation, Tara, or as Cynara calls it, Tata, was not a pleasant one.Ĭynara recalls being sold by her biological father as a child because, as the letter she still carries explains, he was concerned about her becoming a distraction to her mother in the care of the family's eldest child, Scarlett, or as Cynara calls her, Other. Not long after this split, Cynara learns that her mother, the O'Hara family mammy, is dying.

R.'s child with Other has recently died and the resulting fallout of the child's death coupled with the death of a close family friend has caused a split in R.'s marriage to Other. The Wind Done Gone is the story of one woman who must make peace in her own heart with the question of slavery and the resulting treatment that she received from both her white parent and her black parent.Ĭynara lives in Atlanta not far from the home that her lover, R., once shared with his wife and Cynara's half-sister, Other. Cynara was sold away from the family at a very young age, but managed to make her way back into the life of half-sister, Scarlett O'Hara, through their mutual lover, Rhett Butler. The main character is Cynara, the daughter of the O'Hara family mammy and Gerald O'Hara, master of Tara. In this novel, Randall takes a look at the unaddressed question in the original novel of mulatto slaves on Tara. The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall is a parody of the classic novel, Gone with the Wind.

The wind done gone by alice randall