Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

I bought Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil years ago in Savannah, an incredibly beautiful city where almost everyone tells you about this book when they find out you're a tourist. I put it on the shelf and forgot about it. In the fall I read Berendt's second book City of Falling Angels, and loved it beyond reason. That induced me to go back to this one and I'm very glad I did. Berendt's literary voice is perfection, the atmosphere is so thick you can breathe it in, the characters are really characters and the whole of it is the very best kind of literary non-fiction. Read it and be amazed. Suggested soundtrack: Ella Fitzgerald sing the Johnny Mercer Songbook.