Choices - Fiction
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
 | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, this is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of grey-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn Couch, 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. Back in the thirties they ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. The novel explores racism in the American South, sexual roles, domestic violence, and the thinly-veiled lesbian relationship of the central two young women, who, after one is rescued from her abusive spouse, set up a household and raise the first woman's son together. As the past unfolds, the present, for Evelyn, will never be quite the same again. First published in 1987, the book has been in print ever since, and Flagg wrote the screenplay for the film version. 10 copies |
