Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt

‘Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.’ That’s Mama, she’s a okay girl.”

Chablis clapped her hands. “I took the money them white folks gave us to murder their unborn grandchild, and I bought that color TV sittin’ over there and that videocassette player too. And with what was left over, I went out and got me the raunchiest little sequined dress I could find, so in case they ever do find out who I am, I can shake my ass in their face and tell them, ‘Thanks from the bottom of our interracial baby’s dead little heart!’”

I havent laughed this hard at a quote in a book in a long time. This took me out.