<Tr> <Th> LC Class </Th> <Td> PS3556. L26 F7 1987 </Td> </Tr> <P> Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a 1987 novel by Fannie Flagg . 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 . Every week Evelyn visits Ninny, who tells her stories about her youth in Whistle Stop, Alabama where her sister - in - law, Idgie, and her friend, Ruth, ran a café . These stories, along with Ninny's friendship, enable Evelyn to begin a new, satisfying life while allowing the people and stories of Ninny's youth to live on . The book was also made into a movie, and explores themes of family, aging, lesbianism, and the dehumanizing effects of racism on both blacks and whites . </P> <P> Throughout the novel the narrator and time period change, and the reader relies on the chapters' headings to establish the date and the source of the chapter . Some of the narration comes in the form of the fictional newsletter called "The Weems Weekly"; other narrations come from the Couches' house in Birmingham, and omniscient narrations reveal still more . The framing story, set in the mid-1980s, depicts Evelyn Couch, who goes weekly with her husband to visit his mother in a nursing home . On one visit, Evelyn befriends Ninny Threadgoode, another resident of the same home, who tells Evelyn stories of her youth in Whistle Stop in the 1920s . Between subsequent visits, Evelyn assumes the protagonists of these stories as role models . </P> <P> According to Ninny, she was an orphan raised by the Threadgoodes, and eventually married one of their sons; but the principal character throughout her story is the youngest daughter, Idgie (Imogene) Threadgoode: an unrepentant tomboy, became reclusive after her brother, Buddy, was killed on the railway . Ruth Jamison comes to live with the family while teaching at the Vacation Bible School . Idgie gradually becomes enamored of her and is saddened when Ruth leaves Whistle Stop to marry Frank Bennett . Frank turns out to be a violent, abusive man who often beats Ruth . She remains faithful to Frank until her mother's death . Subsequently, Ruth sends Idgie a message, and Idgie, along with several others, rescue her . Intimidated by Big George, the family's handyman and café cook, Frank does not resist . </P>

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