If You Tell
Gregg Olsen, 2019
A true account of three sisters raised by a mother who made cruelty ordinary—and the loyalty that kept them alive.
True crime: books to read
A page that shows it
The love a child gives before she knows it can be withheld.
I loved my mother because I didn’t know I had a choice. I had to love her. -
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt, 1994
A reporter drifts into Savannah's closed world of antiques, manners and eccentrics, where a killing turns social comedy into something darker.
A taste of the feed
What a city gains by refusing to let the world in.
For me, Savannah’s resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil · John Berendt
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