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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Fannie Flagg

  • 403 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 1987
  • 27 editions
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1 About this book

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story.

Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter—even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again.

Good for readers who want: a love story and friendship.

  • Race relations
  • Female friendship
  • Domestic fiction
  • Romance
  • Friendship
  • Family life
  • Reminiscing in old age
  • Lesbians

2 About Fannie Flagg

Born 1944

Fannie Flagg (born Patricia Neal; September 21, 1944) is an American actress, comedian, and author. She is most notable as a frequent panelist on the 1973–1982 versions of the game show Match Game and for her 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which she adapted into the script for the 1991 motion picture Fried Green Tomatoes. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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