Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg
4 stars
Evelyn is a middle aged woman who wished she had done more with her life. Every Sunday she vists her mother-in-law at the nursing home, and befriends a little old woman named Ninny Threadgoode, who tells her stories of growing up in Whistle Stop, Alabama, and the cafe her aunt owned.
This book reminds me a lot of The Help or The Secret Life of Bees in that it is about female friendship and spirtual growth. The ending was very sweet, and while I adored all of the characters, there were so many that it was hard to keep up with all of them at times.
I gave this book 4 stars, with it's best qualities being the writing and the characters (Idgie was my favorite), and its weakness being the pace, but I gave the pace a 7/10, so i'm not really sure if that even counts as a weakness. This book is really good, and I reccommend it if you love historical fiction or if you enjoyed The Help.
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