About the book: 2021 / The war is over, but new challenges await Scarlett and her household. There is devastation, hunger, disease all around. Walking across scorched earth, the Yankees made a new raid on “Tara”, took away the meager food and everything that was of any value, and burned the cotton, on the sale of which the inhabitants of the estate pinned so many hopes. But life goes on, and Scarlett, bitterly remembering the easy chores of her past, luxurious life, thinks about how everything has changed, now it is important to have enough food so as not to die of hunger, clothes so as not to become numb from the cold, and a roof over your head, which doesn't leak too much…