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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

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tcole7's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

book to movie, small-town, lesbians, romance, racial discrimination, racism, family, multi-generational family, uplifting, friendships, marriage

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grannycat's review against another edition

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medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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kbeucler's review against another edition

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3.5

This was my binge book for September, and I had a delightful day doing nothing but reading this book. Weaving forward and backward in time, this book tells the story of two women running a cafe in a small town in Alabama. But it also tells the story of the whole community and all the lives they touched with love and good food and the life they might have ended? (Just a little casual murder that’s never been solved.) This one has more serious themes than the other Fannie Flagg book I’ve read, but it still has her signature humor. Kind of reminded me of a cross between To Kill a Mockingbird and a John Irving novel, which doesn’t seem like a combination that should work, but it does. I liked the structure of it, the way it had the frame of Ninny telling Evelyn the story of Idgie and Ruth and then the flashbacks to them mixed with the newspaper bulletins and the development of Evelyn’s story arc in the present. Certainly there are a few things that didn’t age super well, but overall still a relevant story. Nice to see casual LGBTQIA+ rep in older books like this one.

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thegreenship's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

The amount of slurs and problematic age gaps, the normalisation of grooming, the white savior complex...

the only good things were the plot twist, that actually took me by surprise, that they just straight up ate his body, so he wouldnt be found, like i did NOT expect that part! and then also the last couple of pages after the old lady died when Evelyn visited the grave and saw the letter and the flowers and when Idgie was selling honey to that family, that was kinda nice, to get at least soewhat of an answer to the question of what happened to her, after the café closed down

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bookwormcat's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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graceflvnt's review against another edition

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1.0

* I didn’t actually finish this book, but I need to give it a low rating*

Wildly racist, and not just in the “period-typical” way either. Author writes about Black people in a super infantilizing way: always happy to help, always happy to work, very grateful for the white people they work for who are basically part of the family (and who are still buddy-buddy with local members of the KKK?). There’s a passage where one of the main characters starts fantasizing about herself as an extreme do-gooder/superhero figure and one of her righteous acts is “single-handedly blowing up the entire Middle East to prevent the Third World War” (232).

Weird in other ways too, in terms of sex and power dynamics.

If you’re reading this for the sapphic romance, don’t bother. Yikes.

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