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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Author(s): Fannie Flagg

Location(s): Alabama

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 1930s

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Set in the Great Depression and told retrospecitvely from the 1980s. Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison have opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, and the small town in Alabama became a home form home. You could get eggs, grits, bacon, ham, coffee and a smile for 25 cents. Ruth was just the and Idgie was a real character but how anybody could have thought she murdered that man ……

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Flagg writes from the heart – you can tell – her portrait of the people, the land and the area is terrific. – Leslie Reader Myrtle

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