Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

This was a IRL book club pick, something I had heard of but was pretty sure I had no interest in reading. Oh dear, there are problems with high society people in Savannah? Let me rush right into that.

Well, now I want to visit Savannah. (Damn you, well written and delightful book!)

This really is non-fiction that you can't quite believe really happened. Are people really like this? I know there are eccentrics in the good ol' USA but to have that many living in Savannah is really quite astounding.

We're told of the saga of Jim Williams, rich, gay, eccentric, and simultaneously beloved and loathed by society. Oh, they will come to his mansion and to his parties but they will talk about him behind his back because he didn't rise up through the proper family ranks. In a nutshell, a very small nutshell, he kills the 21 year old who works for him in self-defense. Except no one really believes it and he ends up having FOUR trials to determine if he's guilty.

Add in a lawyer/conman, a transgender drag queen named Chablis, a voodoo queen and a bug guy willing to poison the water of Savannah and I'm not sure what exactly you get. You definitely get a great book to lose yourself in and I'm sure you'll get a road trip to Savannah because you want to see if people are really like this.

*starts planning road trip*

Sadly, Lady Chablis is no longer in Savannah.