Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

A Novel

By: Fannie Flagg

Narrated by: Fannie Flagg

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the
now-classic story 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 friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in
Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again...

.©1987 Fannie Flagg; (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

"The people in Miss Flagg's book are as real as the people in books can be. If you put an ear to the pages, you can almost hear the characters speak. The writer's imaginative skill transforms simple, everyday events into complex happenings that take on universal meanings."—Chattanooga Times

"This whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten."—Los Angeles Times

"A sparkling gem."—Birmingham News

"Watch out for Fannie Flagg. When I walked into the Whistle Stop Cafe she fractured my funny bone, drained my tear ducts, and stole my heart."—Florence King, Author of Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady


"Admirers of the wise child in Flagg's first novel, Coming Attractions, will find her grown-up successor, Idgie, equally appealing. The book's best character, perhaps, is the town of Whistle Stop itself—too bad trains don't stop there anymore."—Publishers Weekly

Literally in the Author’s Voice

I absolutely love hearing this in the author’s voice! You get to hear her story exactly the way she intended it to be told, with the added bonus of authenticity to her characters as individuals and the way that they interrelate with one another. One gets the impression that these characters are based on people the author grew up around, with the characteristic “Southern Charm “ of folks from the rural South.

AWESOME STORY

This is just a really good story, made better by the narrator!
Thanks Audible

Love it! Too bad is not the full version :(

I bought it before checking it was the abridged version, I’m sad since this is one of my favorite books. Yet, the performance is amazing.

This book touches my heart

I love this book. It's a joy to go back and enjoy it over and over again..

Warmed my heart like gravy warms biscuits!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Definitely - the story is true in both its layers, and Fannie Flagg's narration is spot on, giving the reader an immersion experience in Whistle Stop culture.

What did you like best about this story?

The double layers of the story - history and contemporary.

Who was the most memorable character of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe and why?

Idgie Threadgood is a free spirit, a real bee charmer.