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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Author of Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop 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...

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg

  • Publication Date: January 21, 1997
  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • ISBN-10: 0449911357
  • ISBN-13: 9780449911358