This New York Time's Best Seller is the authorized novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind.  This is a hardback copy.

From Amazon: 

“Exquisitely imagined, deeply researched, Donald McCaig's Ruth's Journey brings to the foreground the most enigmatic and fascinating figure in Gone With the Wind. This is a brave work of literary empathy by a writer at the height of his powers, who demonstrates a magisterial understanding of the period, its clashing cultures and its heartbreaking crises.” (Geraldine Brooks, author of March)