Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe

“A real novel and a good one [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.”  — The New York Times 

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 grey-headed Mrs Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women — the irrepressibly dare-devilish 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.

“Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved [the Threadgoodes] in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure.”  —  Harper Lee 

“This whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten.”  —  Los Angeles Times