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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. Threadgoode who s telling her life story. 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. And as the past unfolds the present will never be quite the same again. Praise for 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 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