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Title: Fried
green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop cafe
Author: Fannie Flagg
Genre: fiction
Rating: 
Two main stories are being told in this impressive book. The first is the relationship
between Evelyn and Mrs. Threadgoode in the 1980s. The second one is the story
about two women running a cafe in Whistle Stop in the 1930s and all the people
around them. Through different perspectives and lifetimes the reader gets a total picture of
who was born, who did what and why, who has died, who went where and who
murdered who.
The story is told with charm and will grab you as soon as you read the first
"Weems Weekly". What made the book impressive for me was the fact that
it made me realize how time goes by and that all stories and situations go from happening to memory to non existing
when the people who lived it die. Seeing a character at the age of 57, telling a
story about his childhood to his grandchild, that you as reader read just 50
pages back, is very confronting about how time doesn't stand still and about the
fact that nothing stays the same forever. A painful, but happy realization at
the same time. And that is the ambivalent feeling I'm having about the book: I'm
glad I read it and still want more, but I'm also glad I'm finished, because my
life will also never be the same again and I have to get used to that feeling
for a while.
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If
you liked this book, you should try:
To kill a
mockingbird
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