{"product_id":"book-asnq","title":"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe","description":"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... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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!\" \u003cbr\u003e --Harper Lee,  Author of \u003cb\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy  brain of a born storyteller.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It's very good, in fact, just  wonderful.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Funny and macabre.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Courageous and wise.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49338989084976,"sku":"BDasnq","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/205507-asnq-Square.jpg?v=1734009677","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-asnq","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}