Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg.
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel 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 tells 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 Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder.
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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
by Fannie Flagg.
Here is Fannie Flagg's high-spirited and unabashedly sentimental first novel, the precursor to the bestselling Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
Taken from the pages of Daisy Fay Harper's journal, this is a coming of age story set in rural Mississippi that is by turns hilarious and touching. It begins in 1952 when Daisy Fay is a sassy, truth-tellin' but lonely eleven-year old, and ends six years later when she becomes the flamboyant, unlikely -- but assured -- winner of the Miss Mississippi contest.
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Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
by Fannie Flagg.
Author of the best-selling Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1987) and cowriter of the script for the popular movie based on that book, Flagg follows up with this sentimental look at small-town life. Set during the late '70s, the novel follows the career of Dena Nordstrom, a hard-charging TV anchorwoman determined to make her mark in prime-time television, although she has qualms about its change in focus from hard news to scandalmongering.
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