![]() The people that frequent the cafe form a bond that supports one another through terrible tragedies and protect their own. It’s also the center of town activities, gossip and news. ![]() ![]() In the 1930s the cafe serves excellent Southern-style home cooking, especially fried green tomatoes. Moving between two time periods – the 1930s and the 1980s – this book centers on a small town in Alabama and the Whistle Stop Cafe. Everyone loved it.Īnd why not? It has a little bit of everything – family and friendship, an epic love story, a murder mystery, some grief and heartbreak and lots of joy. But this book, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg, never failed me. And just because you thought a book was the best ever written, doesn’t mean someone else will feel the same. Reading preferences, mood, previous mis-conceptions – all can affect how a person will feel about a book. When it was published in 1987 not everyone had heard about it (this was long before celebrity book clubs and relentless social media attention). ![]() For many years, this was my go-to title when someone asked me for a book recommendation. ![]()
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