Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
November 21st, 2008 by editor
Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café weaves together the past and the present in a story of the blossoming friendship between Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman who lives in a nursing home. Every week Evelyn visits Ninny, who recounts her memories of Whistle Stop, Alabama where her sister-in-law Idgie and her friend Ruth ran a café. These stories, along with Ninny’s friendship, enable Evelyn to begin a new, satisfying life.
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The story set in Alabama, during the Depression, deals with the friendship between two women, and their trials and tribulations. Fannie Flagg writes from the heart and you feel that you know personally each and every one of her characters. The atmosphere she creates is so real you can smell the coffee and taste the pies.
Our reading group thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful feel good book, and were sorry to finish it, as we felt we were leaving friends behind.