Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now- classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who's in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode,  who's telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women- the irrepressibly dare devilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth- who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter- even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again.