

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. 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.
