description: Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is thenow-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story toEvelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of theirrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place inWhistle 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 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
language: English
title: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
titlecomplete: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
characters: Idgie, Ruth, Evelyn Couch, Mrs. Ninny Threadgoode
genres: Fiction, Historical, Queer, LGBT, Humor, Classics, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Southern
ratings_count: 300733
places: Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, Whistle Stop, Alabama, Troutville, Alabama, Davenport, Iowa
series: Whistle Stop, AL
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Fawcett Books