Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
A Book as Tasty and Warm as a Home Cooked Meal Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is about the bonds of a small Alabama town. It’s about community, friendships, and love. Told in an easy, comfortable voice, the book alternates between several narrators. We learn town news in notices from the post mistress’s bulletin highlighting noteworthy events such as a meteorite that smashes a neighbor’s radio, boy scouts who were awarded merit badges, and updates on her husband’s snoring, wrecking the car, and losing his National Geographic Magazine . The true bones of the book lies in the lives of Idgie and Ruth whom we discover in a third-person voice and in the reminisents of a chatty, congenial, elderly woman, Mrs. Threadgoode. Mrs. Threadgoode befriends Evelyn, a discontent homemaker, at the Rose Terrace Nursing Home where Evelyn regularly waits in the hallway while her husband v...