num_pages: 408
description: Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who is telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women, the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present 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, Historical, Queer, LGBT, Humor, Classics, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Southern
ratings_count: 300704
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: Readers Digest