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Book review: fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe by fannie flagg.

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I haven't read this one yet, but am currently reading The All Girl Filling Stations Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg, and I have Standing in the Rainbow on my tbr, Thanks for the review!!

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Review: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café [1987] – ★★★★

“ I may be sitting here at the Rose Terrace Nursing Home, but in my mind I’m over at the Whistle Stop Café having a plate of fried green tomatoes “, Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode, June 1986 (preface quote to Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café ).This book is about two women – Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman in a nursing home, – meeting in 1985, and Ms Threadgoode starts to tell Evelyn about her youth spent in Whistle Stop, Alabama during the Depression era. Evelyn goes back in her mind to that time when Ms Threadgoode’s wild, free-spirited sister-in-law Idgie and her beautiful, soft-spoken friend Ruth ran a café in Whistle Stop, discovering the hardship they went through and the happiness they found. Mrs Threadgoode also hints at a murder mystery which got everyone talking in the 1930s in Whistle Stop. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a “feel-good” book at the centre of which is a powerful story of two women whose friendship and love enabled them to overcome obstacles in their way. Originally presented, paying special attention to the connecting power of food and cooking, the book also touches on such themes as racism, aging, marital violence, and finding hope in difficult times.

The book opens with some Whistle Stop newspaper bulletin news (of June 12, 1929) about a new café opening in Whistle Stop, run by Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison. For breakfast there one may have: “ eggs, grits, biscuits, bacon, sausage, ham and red-eye gravy, and coffee ” [Flagg, 1987: 3]. For lunch and supper, the following options are available: “ fried chicken; pork chops and gravy; catfish; chicken and dumplings; or a barbecue plate ” [Flagg, 1987: 3-4]. The vegetables available at the café are: “ creamed corn, fried green tomatoes, fried okra…black-eyes peas…and lima beans ” [Flagg, 1987: 4].

From this, we are transported to the year 1985 to the Rose Terrance Nursing Home, where Evelyn Couch, a self-conscious and depressed housewife, meets an upbeat and optimistic nursing home resident Ninny Threadgoode. Mrs Threadgoode begins to tell Evelyn a story of changing times whose colourful characters are unlike anyone Evelyn ever read in books before. We are introduced to wild Idgie who befriends soon-to-be-married Ruth, and their friendship almost revolutionises the ways of Whistle Stop when they open a homely café welcoming everyone there irrespective of their colour, societal standing or financial circumstances. The story is one of those “feel-good” ones which later became great films, akin to Forrest Gump , written in 1986 by Winston Groom. There is some heart-break and trauma in the book, but there is also plenty of happiness and humour too, just like in real life.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a book that presents its story in a curious way: there are news bulletins written by Dot Weems that gives us the overview of weekly happenings in Whistle Stop, from local shop news to weather alerts and crime reports. The storyline jumps back and forth from the 1930s (the story of Idgie and Ruth) to the year 1985 (the present story of Evelyn and Ms Threadgoode). In that way, the novel is episodic in nature, but, somehow, it feels even more real that way, and, as the old lady in the nursing home reminisces, we are also transported to the times of the Great Depression and then the War, getting the feel of the place that was Whistle Stop, Alabama. Ms Threadgoode says to Evelyn : “ It’s a good thing that I love trains, because Whistle Stop wasn’t never nothing more than a railroad town, and Troutville was just a bunch of shacks, with one church, the Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church…” [Flagg, 1987: 102]. When Idgie and Ruth open a café in their small town, the message is all about food bringing people together irrespective of their differences (there are even cooking recipes at the end of the book), and, from then on, the story is one of touching friendship and love that give rise to hope and the will to fight for a better life.

Flagg’s book is sometimes too “sweet” for my taste, and the plot does run out of steam in the second half of the book, but there are still things to look forward to, including the solving of a murder mystery. Evelyn Crouch also grows as a character throughout the novel. If at first Evelyn is described as a depressed woman who views herself “ too young to be old and too old to be young ” [Flagg, 1987: 15], her relationship with her new friend Ninny Threadgoode changes Evelyn for the better, especially when Mrs Threadgoode gives her such pieces of advice: “ But He only gives you what you can handle and no more…You can’t dwell on sadness, oh, it’ll make you sick faster than anything else in this world ” [Flagg, 1987: 69].

🥧 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a heart-warming, bitter-sweet novel with important life lessons inside. It is possible that the book is a bit too sentimental and preachy, but it is also warmly nostalgic with humorous and adventurous elements. Fannie Flagg’s story makes a point not to forget the kindness of others, as well as all those people who lived during the Depression era in small American towns who tried their best to make theirs and other people’s lives a little better and happier.

FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE

by Fannie Flagg ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 30, 1987

Former Candid Camera writer Flagg (Coming Attractions, 1981) has written a hilarious, heartwarming novel about the practical uses of nostalgia and the healing power of community spirit. At 48, Evelyn Couch ""had gotten lost somewhere along the way."" By the time she had second thoughts about the Vietnam War, ""Jane Fonds had already moved on to her exercise class."" When she joined a consciousness-raising group, ""the woman suggested that next week they bring a mirror so they could all study their vaginas, and she never went back."" Overweight, menopausal and suicidal, Evelyn visits her mother-in-law at the Rose Terrace Nursing Home, and there encounters 86-year-old, purple-haired Cleo Threadgoode (coiffed by a midget because ""I love a midget""). The two became friends. Cleo chats about her life in the 1930's, when she was part of a huge, extended family that centered around the Whistle Stop Cafe, a barbecue joint at a railroad stop near Birmingham, Alabama. Cleo's old gang included beautiful, gentle Ruth and her blonde, trouser-wearing companion Idgie; Ruth's one-armed son Stump; gossip-monger Dottle Weems; and an assortment of tramps, bad girls, do-gooders and rascals. They all become so real to Evelyn that she takes Cleo's memories of the Whistle Stop folk into her own heart and, fortified by them, forsakes Mars Bars for carrot sticks, eventually finding fulfillment selling Mary Kay cosmetics. Tall tales, acts of simple courage, everyday heroism and love abound in this funny, high-spirited, unabashedly sentimental book. Flagg manages to treat her characters with both outrageous humor and solid affection--a rare combination that makes for great fun.

Pub Date: Sept. 30, 1987

ISBN: 1400064627

Page Count: -

Publisher: Random House

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1987

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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe b y Fannie Flagg

— ilana masad.

Recently, with a surprising bit of free time on my hands, I finally turned to a queer classic that was recommended to me by a dear friend. She’d told me that I would love the book, and gave me her copy, inscribed with a beautiful note. It took so long before I could read it, though, that by the time I did I’d forgotten all about the queer element and got to experience the surprise and delight that comes with discovering queer undertones for oneself.

Cover features a small southern US shop on a dusty highway.

Fried Green Tomatoes is about Whistle Stop, a small town in Alabama, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone and is in everybody else’s business. The plot moves back and forth in time, focusing in on a few intertwined families: the white Threadgoodes, and specifically daughter Idgie and married-into-the-family Ninny; Big George and Onzell, an African American married couple who work in different capacities for the family, and Big George’s mother, Sipsey; and, along the sidelines, Dot Weems, who comments on the goings on in her town newsletter. These characters mainly appear in the part of the plot set in the past, except for Ninny, who is in a nursing home in the 1980s where she meets Evalyn Couch, a woman who becomes her friend and to whom Ninny tells large portions of Whistle Stop’s history.

There’s a lot about the novel that’s highly problematic in contemporary terms, but that means well, and it’s best to read the book as a product of its time and as progressive for the Alabama that is being both admired and critiqued in its pages. For instance, there are some scenes involving the Ku Klux Klan, which attempt to differentiate between white men who joined up to dance around in sheets and be silly and the white men who participated in the KKK’s hateful and violent activities. Ninny, who narrates, makes a lot of statements about how African Americans are just like white people, but sets up whiteness as the standard against which they should be measured (guess what—it isn’t). However, Flagg tries to balance out what appears to be simply the ignorance of this woman with scenes focusing on Big George and Onzell’s two boys, one of whom finds a great deal of joy in Birmingham’s largely black neighborhoods of the 1950s a 1960s, while the other experiences deep confusion when he is ignored by his niece when she sees him for the first time in years, because she’s passing for white in a department store.

Race isn’t the only subject that holds center stage in the novel. The other is, as I mentioned earlier, queerness. Idgie Threadgoode is coded queer from early in the book, when she decides that she will never again wear a dress. She is so stubborn that despite familial wishes that she wear a dress for her older sister’s wedding, at least, her mother ends up asking the tailor to make Idgie a bright green suit. When a young woman named Ruth, a few years Idgie’s senior, comes to hang out with her one summer, Idgie is smitten. The word “crush” is even used by Idgie’s mother to describe what she’s going through. When Ruth leaves, Idgie is heartbroken, and seeks comfort in the arms of a renowned “loose” woman, a free-spirited drinker, smoker, gambler, and all around awesome character named Eva Bates. The book heavily suggests that they get it on. Later, Idgie rescues Ruth from her abusive husband, and the two of them set up house and shop together, opening the titular Whistle Stop Café and living as a de facto married couple, raising Ruth’s son together.

Whistle Stop is, in other words, a highly accepting town. Despite Jim Crow laws that are still in effect early in the plot’s timeline, the Whistle Stop Café serves African American customers, and for cheaper prices too. Despite a general homophobia and Judeo-Christian attitude that would have reigned at the time, Idgie and Ruth’s partnership is accepted without question. The language isn’t as progressive as one would like, but again, this book was first published in 1987 and deals with characters who lived before the Civil Rights Movement took the country by storm, before gay rights activists were able to march through the streets without fear of arrest.

Words are certainly always important, and I will never say otherwise. But in Whistle Stop, actions speak louder than words. If only every person who spoke with old-fashioned terminology and problematic wording was, at the same time, acting daily in favor of true equality, we would be living in a very different world.

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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a 1987 novel by American author and actress Fanny Flagg, who also wrote an award-winning screen adaption of the book. The narrative contains two interconnected stories that unfold several decades apart.

The frame narrative, which takes place in Birmingham, Alabama between December 1985 and December 1986, depicts the developing friendship between a middle-aged housewife named Evelyn Couch and an elderly widow named Ninny Threadgoode. As the story opens, Evelyn is suffering from what she will later recognize as depression and anxiety. Although her life superficially resembles the American ideal, Evelyn is deeply unhappy with how it has turned out. She is traumatized by her mother’s death from cancer, estranged from her husband Ed, and unable to relate to the changes that have taken place in American society. She says, “I just feel stuck…stuck right in the middle. Women’s lib came too late for me…I was already married with two children when I found out that I didn’t have to get married […] And now it’s too late to change…I feel like life has just passed me by” (67).

Evelyn’s life begins to change when she meets Ninny Threadgoode while visiting her mother-in-law at a nursing home. Mrs. Threadgoode is talkative and opinionated, speaking frankly about her own experiences of sex, marriage, and children while also boosting Evelyn’s self-esteem. Evelyn gains more confidence, although years of bottling up her feelings sometimes culminates in angry outbursts; for instance, when a teenage girl pulls into a parking space Evelyn has been waiting for, Evelyn crashes her car repeatedly into the girl’s vehicle.

Evelyn later has a transformative experience when she visits a black church and feels real joy for the first time. She lets go of her anger and sadness and embarks on a new life, becoming a successful distributor of Mary Kay cosmetics and attending a weight loss program in California. After two months at the program, Evelyn receives a letter explaining that Mrs. Threadgoode has died. Heartbroken, Evelyn returns to the nursing home, where she receives a box of mementoes and recipes Mrs. Threadgoode left for her. Evelyn comes to terms with the loss of Mrs. Threadgoode and feels gratitude for the new life her friend encouraged her to pursue. A year later, she visits Mrs. Threadgoode’s grave, driving the pink, Mary Kay Cadillac, to thank her.

The novel’s second narrative presents a series of flashbacks, prompted by Evelyn and Mrs. Threadgoode’s conversations, in which Mrs. Threadgoode reminisces about her hometown of Whistle Stop, Alabama, a railroad town roughly ten miles outside of Birmingham. The main characters of this story, Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison , are co-owners of the Depression-Era Whistle Stop Cafe.

Idgie, the youngest child of Ninny Threadgoode’s adoptive parents, is free spirited, rebellious, and tomboyish from a young age. When Idgie is 12 or 13, her beloved older brother, Buddy, dies suddenly in a railway accident, casting a shadow over her usual good humor and causing her to spend more time alone in the woods. Idgie doesn’t recover from her grief until a few years later when she falls in love with Ruth Jamison, a young Sunday school teacher from Georgia. Although Ruth returns Idgie’s feelings, she feels obligated to move back to her hometown and marry her fiancé, Frank Bennett . A few years later, Idgie learns that Frank is abusing Ruth and helps her escape to Whistle Stop. There, Idgie opens a cafe to support Ruth and her unborn child.

From 1929 onward, Idgie and Ruth run the Whistle Stop Cafe, which functions as the town’s major social nexus and serves those that other establishments won’t— out-of-work drifters and the black population of neighboring Troutville. The two women face many challenges over the years. In 1930, Frank travels to Whistle Stop to forcefully retrieve Ruth, and then suddenly disappears. The ensuing police investigation casts suspicion on Idgie, and, when Frank’s car is found in 1955, Idgie stands trial for his murder. The community bands together and provides her with an alibi, and the court finds her innocent.

In 1936, Ruth’s son, Buddy Jr, is in a train accident and loses his arm, giving rise to his nickname: “Stump.” Ruth dies of cancer 11 years later. Idgie raises Stump, and he grows up to marry a local girl and establish a family of his own. Idgie has to close the café in the mid-1950s as the railways fade in importance, but she’s still thriving in the late 1980s, running a roadside stand with her brother Julian.

Flagg intersperses the two main storylines of the novel with episodes involving several other residents of Whistle Stop—most notably, the black family that cooks for the cafe. The grandmother, Sipsey Peavey , served as a nanny for the Threadgoode children and eventually adopts a child of her own: “Big George” Pullman Peavey goes on to run the barbecue at the Whistle Stop Cafe and has four children with his wife, Onzell. The fates of George’s eldest boys, Jasper and Artis, feature particularly prominently in the novel. Although twins, the two look and act nothing alike: Jasper is fair-skinned, works hard at his job as a railway porter, and eventually marries into the black middle-class, whereas Artis is dark-skinned and leads a life of womanizing, heavy spending, and occasional violence. The narrative also eventually reveals that Sipsey, not Idgie, killed Frank.

Through excerpts from newspapers, including Whistle Stop’s Weems Weekly , Flagg offers glimpses into the lives of even more minor characters—for instance, the newspaper reports on Essie Rue Threadgoode, whose skills playing the organ for church eventually translate into a career playing the piano for radio ads and movies. The novel closes with several recipes from the Whistle Stop Cafe, accompanied by advice and notes on different characters’ preferences. For example, Mrs. Threadgoode says of the pork chops and gravy that “Big George could eat eight at a time” (400).

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FANNIE FLAGG began writing and producing television specials at age nineteen and went on to distinguish herself as an actress and writer in television, films, and the theater. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (which was produced by Universal Pictures as Fried Green Tomatoes), Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!, and Standing in the Rainbow. Flagg's script for Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for both the Academy and Writers Guild of America Awards and won the highly regarded Scripters Award. Flagg lives in California and in Alabama.

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ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0375508417
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.39 x 1.33 x 9.51 inches
#137,432 in Literary Fiction (Books)

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Fannie flagg.

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"... Lots more detail and more stories about the Whistle Stop Cafe, Idgie Threadgood, Ruth Jameson, Big George, Sipsey, and all the rest...." Read more

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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
311,533 ratings10,486 reviews. Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who is telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women, the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy ...
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
LC Class. PS3556.L26 F7 1987. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a 1987 novel by American author Fannie Flagg. Set in Alabama, it weaves together the past and the present through the blossoming friendship between Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman who lives in a nursing home.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop 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. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her ...
Book Review: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie
Reviewing the book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe was one of the most challenging books to review and rate in a while. Fried Green Tomatoes is a classic - both book and film-wise.I picked up the book to finally read it in anticipation of Fannie Flagg's upcoming novel, The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop, which returns to the same small town of Whistle Stop, Alabama.
Book Review: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie
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 daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in ...
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel
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 daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in ...
Review: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a book that presents its story in a curious way: there are news bulletins written by Dot Weems that gives us the overview of weekly happenings in Whistle Stop, from local shop news to weather alerts and crime reports. The storyline jumps back and forth from the 1930s (the story of Idgie and Ruth ...
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FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE. by Fannie Flagg ‧RELEASE DATE: Sept. 30, 1987. Former Candid Camera writer Flagg (Coming Attractions, 1981) has written a hilarious, heartwarming novel about the practical uses of nostalgia and the healing power of community spirit. At 48, Evelyn Couch ""had gotten lost somewhere along the way."".
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Author interviews, book reviews and lively book commentary are found here. Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. The Book Report Network. ... Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg. Publication Date: January 21, 1997; Paperback: 432 pages; Publisher: Ballantine Books; ISBN-10: 0449911357;
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
Fried Green Tomatoes is about Whistle Stop, a small town in Alabama, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone and is in everybody else's business. The plot moves back and forth in time, focusing in on a few intertwined families: the white Threadgoodes, and specifically daughter Idgie and married-into-the-family Ninny; Big George and ...
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
appealing. The book's best character, perhaps, is the town of Whistle Stop itself--too bad trains don't stop there anymore." Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg Publication Date: January 21, 1997 Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN-10: 0449911357 ISBN-13: 9780449911358
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Last month I craved feel-good, transportive reads. Perhaps it was the darkening days, or the approaching election punctuated by its divisiveness, but as I worked through my to-read list of uplifting fiction, I cozied up with Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1987).As a teenager, I fell in love with wild Idgie and delicate Ruth in the 1991 Fried Green Tomatoes film ...
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel
Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel at Amazon.com. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. ... 5.0 out of 5 stars Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: Book vs. Movie.. Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2017.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Overview. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a 1987 novel by American author and actress Fanny Flagg, who also wrote an award-winning screen adaption of the book. The narrative contains two interconnected stories that unfold several decades apart. The frame narrative, which takes place in Birmingham, Alabama between December 1985 ...
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel
The book was a little different from the movie Fried Green Tomatoes . I enjoyed reading the book , and watching the movie . The stories Ms Threadgood told would make you laugh or cry . Some of the book characters are very colorful too. I highly recommend this book with its enjoyable stories and entertaining plots and real life drama and happenings.
From the Book to the Plate
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 by Sarah Hill. Fried green tomatoes is a dish that we have grown up eating and I believe that most families in the south have their own version of it. After Fannie Flagg's book, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, was adapted into a film in 1991, there was a surge in popularity of not only this recipe ...
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel (Ballantine
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 daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in ...
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