Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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...

"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 original: 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

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 01/21/1997
ISBN: 9780449911358
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.54w x 0.73d
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Honor Book

Review Citations: Library Journal 06/01/2013 pg. 103

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 8658 / Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Reading Level: 5.6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 15