Fannie Flagg was a fixture on game shows like Match Game, Hollywood Squares, and Pyramid in the 1970s, but she turned to writing in the 1980s and published Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe in 1987. The novel was immensely popular and was quickly adapted into an award-winning film that starred Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy.
Our Classic Book Discussion Group will read and discuss Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe later this month.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter—even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again.
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Copies of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe can be picked up from the Book Discussion Shelf on our first floor, and it’s also available digitally as an ebook (through Libby/Overdrive) and an audiobook (through Libby/Overdrive).
An in-person discussion of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe will be held at the library on Thursday, June 26, at 3:00 PM. No registration is required to attend.
Published on June 13, 2025.
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