Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

This was a pretty cool non-fiction book to read! Published in 1994, John Berendt writes a true story about a murder mystery in Savannah, Georgia. I have always loved Savannah, so this book was going to be enjoyable to me anyway based on the setting.

The iconic book cover is a statue of a young girl holding a shallow bowl in each hand, in theory to put bird seed in each bowl. The statue is called "Bird Girl" and stood in the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah. Due to popularity of the book and high foot traffic, it was moved to the Telfair Academy,

The statue was made as a cemertery bird feeder, but the book cover suggests the girl is weighing good and evil. To me this seems to ellude to our justice system, a balance of weighing good and evil of a situation. While Savannah is depicted as sometimes a random progressive place in a sea of conservative politics, I still thought the conservative outweighed the sometimes progressive leanings in this book.

My depiction presents a different sort of system. I actually changed this to a different statue in the same cemetery. This one is of an angel pointing upwards. The way I see it as people using solely relgious beliefs to justify innoncence or guilt.