Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg

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Book Review: If there were a million stars, I'd give 'em to this book
Summary: 5 Stars

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

Idgie smiled back at her and looked up into the clear blue sky that reflected her eyes and she was as happy as anybody who is in love in the summertime can be.

Eva didn't know about a lot of things, but she knew about love.

Sipsey was still in the cafe, wagging her finger up to the ceiling. "Don't you do dis, Lord .. don't you do dis to Miz Idgie and Miz Ruth ... don't you do this thang! You hear me, God? Don't do it!"

"That's right. And there's something else I want you always to remember. There are magnificent beings on this eart, son, that are walking around posing as humans. And I don't ever want you to forget that. You hear me?"

Then he turned around and headed for the yard to hop a train south, to Alabama. He wanted to get out of Chicago, this wind that whipped around the buildings was so cold that it sometimes brought a tear to a man's eye.

Naughty Bird went inside and ate three buttermilk biscuits with honey.

After she sealed it, she went over to the window and looked up at the blue sky. She took a deep breath of fresh air and felt her heart rising like a kite that some child had just released to the heavens.

She sat there on the ground, her elbow bleeding, old and fat and worthless all over again.

The door of the cabin opened, and a freshly bathed, powdered and perfumed woman with rust-colored hair and apple-green eyes said, "Come on in, sugar", as Idgie drove away.

Onzell had her eyes closed as she was singing, but she felt the room fill up with sunlight that had broken through the clouds. The warmth of the sun made her cry tears of joy. As she covered the mirror and stopped the clock by the bed, she thanked her sweet Jesus for taking Miss Ruth home.

After that, all Peggy ever had to do was take off her glasses and look up at him, and he was a goner.

It would have been wonderful, too, if Evelyn had known that the young woman who shook her hand had been the eldest daughter of Jasper Peavey, pullman porter, who, like herself, had made it through.

They each understood what the other was feeling. It was as if, from there on, the two of them mourned together. Not that they ever talked about it. The ones that hurt the most always say the least.

... But Artis was still way up in the woods, with his barbecue.

Suddenly Evelyn didn't feel cute anymore, and she wanted to go home.

Evelyn stopped the car and sat there, sobbing like her heart would break, wondering why people had to get old and die.

And the card was signed: "I'll always remember. Your friend, the Bee Charmer."

The great novelist Rita Mae Brown, who for a while was Fannie Flagg's lover, has written of this book: "Her aunt's story was a great story. I told her she could soft-pedal it. Just write the women as she remembered them. I helped her with the structure. This was the novel that eventually became "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe". Fannie doesn't need my help anymore. I'm very proud of her."

And one last note: Few novels get made into movies that are just as good. If you get teared up while you read "Fried Green Tomatoes", you will howl when you see the movie. It's that good. Get the book and the movie both - you will never regret it for a moment.

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