fried green tomatoes

Response to Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The inside cover reads:
"It's the first story 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 tels 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 Wobegone offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. As the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never quite be the same."

My Rxn:
holy fast reading, batman! this 400 page novel slips through your fingers like water! flagg's writing is humorous, descriptive, and heartwrenching. Not ONE spot in the novel dragged. She kept my interest with each story. This book contains at least 50 small stories, and each is interwoven with the next. The characters are hilarious and real, everyone can relate to one of them. The only thing i could never get (even after watching the movie as well) is- is Ninny the same person as Idgie? I'll let you decide. This one certainly wins the Word Nerd Seal of Approval. I don't know if I'd use it in my classroom- it is a little dirty in some spots... but nothing too graphic... just some swear words. I just love how it's a GYNORMOUS BOOK that read's like a youth picture book!