![]() ![]() From early on, the author is lavish with invented detail, too - when Ninny Threadgoode, Idgie's sister-in-law, tells how she threw a broom at a cat in a tree but the broom stuck so now she can't The story is presented in several voices: in excerpts from The Weems Weekly and other journals - in the reminiscences of Ninny Threadgoode, an 80-year-old in a nursing home who tells her story to Evelyn Couch -whose mother-in-law is a resident at the I suspect a phenomenal memory combined with a great deal of research. Hoovervilles, the Klan, a ''hunting camp'' that is more nearly a juke joint, a hot jazz spot in the black section of Birmingham and many other settings. The story centers on a cafe in the railroad town of Whistle Stop, Ala., and on Idgie and Ruth, the two women who run the cafe but it is a generational story, in which even the minorĬharacters are given a goodly share of the stage, and it ranges from Whistle Stop to Valdosta, Ga., Birmingham and Chicago, and ranges back and forth in time from the pre-Depression era to the present. What Fannie Flagg has written, however, is a real novel and a good one. ![]() ![]() His is a title to make a Southerner flinch - another helping of country quaint, of yokel exaggeration? Nor do fried green tomatoes, importantĪs they are, figure essentially in the architectonicsof the book. OctoLove With Reticence and Recipes By JACK BUTLER ![]()
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