Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
Fannie Flagg
ISBN 039456152X

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Ok.

If you are female, and you have not read this book… shame on you. You must have been living under a rock someplace.

Cleo Threadgoode, an octagonarian, tells frustrated, menopausing and terribly terribly tense Evelyn Couch about her life.

Sounds like a right load of drivel, doesn’t it?

In her mind, Cleo escapes back to her home of Whistlestop, Alabama, in the early thirties. She tells the tale of the town, the people, the events… the barbeque, the cafe… and the occasional murder.
It is a riveting tale, interspersed with Evelyn’s own struggle to come to terms with her own life, while she listens to this 80 year old lady, who sort of adopted her.
It’s funny, it’s tragic, it’s macabre… it is full of life.
You will hear about Idgie, about Ruth. You will meet Sipsy and big George. And most of all, you will fall in love with the characters.

I’m tellin ya… The secret’s in the sauce…

I’d give this one a 15 on a 10 scale.