Notes
Weaves together the past and the present through the blossoming friendship between a middle-aged housewife and an elderly woman who lives in a nursing home. Interwoven with the tale of two women - 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.
Description
Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life.
Collection
Call number
F FLA
Genres
Subjects
Awards
RUSA CODES Reading List (Read-alike to Winner — 2024)
Alabama Author Award (Fiction — 1989)
Publication
London : Vintage, 1992, c.1987
Physical description
403 p.; 22 cm