This whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Until moving to the south a few years back, I never had a fried green tomato.nor really ever had the urge to even try one. Praise for Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop CafeĪ real novel and a good one the busy brain of a born storyteller. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again. 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. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. The central relationship, between Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly nursing home resident, develops through the art of. Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs.
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