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Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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I've on-and-off tried to read this for years and finally powered through. It was difficult for me to keep reading about Scarlett - as a deeply devoted character-development person, she didn't give me much to hang on for. And I'm interested in the idea of exploring the failures of Reconstruction, but maybe in a way that wasn't racist. And I don't mean "black-people-are-evil" racist, but I do mean "black-people-are-intellectually-inferior" racist. Some of those parts really made me want to close the book.

But I am genuinely interested to hear from anyone who liked it. And also would love recommendations of Reconstruction-era fiction and/or non-fiction if you have any!