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... <br><br>&quot;Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!&quot; <br>--Harper Lee, Author of <b>To Kill a Mockingbird </b><br><br>&quot;A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.&quot; <br>--<i>The New York Times </i><br><br>&quot;It's very good, in fact, just wonderful.&quot; <br>--<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <br><br>&quot;Funny and macabre.&quot; <br>--<i>The Washington Post</i> <br><br>&quot;Courageous and wise.&quot; <br>--<i>Houston Chronicle</i>