"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."

Sending this out to pfiffigunde2 as a very late April sweepstakes present.

Arrived safely two days ago, thank you very, very much. It's a great surprise and pleasure too with every book I received! It will take me a very long time to read all these books in english, but never mind...sometime I will complete it!
I hope you and your babygirl are well! :-)
Kind regards
Ursula

Oh dear! This was sitting on my stack, waiting to be registered. Now I saw it has already a BCID. But I gave it a new dust jacket, lest it will soon fall apart.

It's a comical and tragic feeling good story about small town life in Alabama in the Thirties and revolves around the family Threadgoode, especially the youngest daugther Idgie (Imogen). It deals among other things with racism (the Ku-Klux-Clan), the Great Depression, lesbianism and old age, and I liked the story very much about Idgie's café and the hushed up murder of a violant husband.
What I didn't care for was the overly religious content and the frame story of Evelyn Couch, a constantly sweets eating, overweight, insecure wet hen with menopause depressions. Probably because I despise overweighted, whining heroines and always suspect that menopause issues are invented for women who have no real problems.
The story also jumps a lot back and forth, we depend on the dates in the title, not to lose the thread. But generally it's a charming and funny book, descibing the sincerity, cordiality and innocence of a world long gone.

für manuma :)

From spy-there last Tuesday at our meetup - took it home and shall give it a try...soon, hopefully..

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