num_pages: 402
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. . . .
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, Humor, Classics, Contemporary, Southern, Historical, Chick Lit, Queer, Historical Fiction, LGBT
ratings_count: 300683
places: Troutville, Alabama, Whistle Stop, Alabama, Davenport, Iowa, Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama
series: Whistle Stop, AL
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Ballantine Books