num_pages: 416
description: Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" is the now-classic novel of two women -- gray-haired 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 -- the irrepressible tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth -- who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, 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, Historical, Queer, LGBT, Humor, Classics, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Southern
ratings_count: 300719
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: Bt Bound