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A review by graceflvnt
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism
Moderate: Ableism and Domestic abuse
Minor: Adult/minor relationship