Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

The Whistle Stop, AL Series - Book 1

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

By Fannie Flagg
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“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

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

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  1. Rosemary
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    Delightful!

    I love listening to the author read, but Lorna Raver makes this Fannie Flagg novel her own. The characters are drawn beautifully, and one would have a heart of stone not to be captured by the story.

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  2. Holly
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    Not what I expected

    I'd heard about this book for years, so I finally decided to see what it was all about. Though not what I expected, I was absolutely drawn into the story. Lorna Raver's narration fits perfectly with Fannie Flagg's writing. The characters were unique and believable, and I found myself constantly wondering what was going to happen next. I wasn't ever quite sure where the story was headed, and that's part of its charm. For me, anyway.

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