MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF FACT AND FICTION

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“The half hour before midnight is for doin’ good,” according to Minerva, the voodoo witch in John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. “The half hour after midnight is for doin’ evil.” And these days in Savannah, Ga., the setting for Berendt’s many-layered non-fiction tale of an insular southern city’s secrets, the rest of the time is for doin’ business.

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