Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Locations
Call Number: Fiction / Flagg, Fannie, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Flagg, Fannie
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Flagg, Fannie	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Flagg, Fannie	4-week checkout	Due 05-18-2024
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Flagg, Fannie	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Flagg, Fannie	4-week checkout	Due 04-28-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Flagg, Fannie	4-week checkout	Due 05-17-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Flagg, Fannie	4-week checkout	Due 05-18-2024

Includes recipes.
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...

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Great book! submitted by ashflowtuff on August 18, 2011, 8:45am I love this book. I love the way Fannie Flagg puts a story together and populates it with great characters. Highly recommended.

One of my favorites submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 29, 2012, 12:18pm This is one of my all-time favorite books. Openly lesbian author Fannie Flagg brings us the story of Idgie and Ruth, a lesbian couple in the rural South in the Great Depression. The book graphically portrays the racism, sexism and violence of the era, so be forewarned. It also has a positive portrayal of prostitution, which I think is unrealistic. The book also contains lots of recipes for Southern food, including the fried green tomatoes.

The movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" is one of my favorites, but does not portray Idgie and Ruth as a couple, so it's not nearly as good as the book.

The book has some real funny parts, too, such as when Evelyn intentionally runs her car into another and then tells the other driver, "Face it: I'm older and I have more insurance."

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An amazing queer love story submitted by Aimless on July 19, 2019, 7:12pm This book is fun, love and family. Reading this book is like coming home

Great characters submitted by Princess Cimorene on July 24, 2020, 5:09pm I love this book. Fannie Flagg is so funny and writes characters that feel incredibly real and warm.