Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the
Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of
gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in
the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of
the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who
back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a
Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and
all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the
past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite
the same again...
"Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the
Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole
community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the
exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie
Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to
marry her!"
--Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
"A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born
storyteller."
--The New York Times
"It's very good, in fact, just wonderful."
--Los Angeles Times
"Funny and macabre."
--The Washington Post
"Courageous and wise."
--Houston Chronicle
