Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story David Petersen providing a blueprint for what

providing a blueprint for what each of us can do to make our lives better

” —Deepak Chopra

Black people were not allowed to dance on stage with white people

Athene Forster was the most glamorous girl of her generation

and gentleness of his grandma

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story David Petersen providing a blueprint for whatShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely