Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg-395 pages

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This is our next book for the Book to Movie Club chosen by our group. I have to be honest. I didn't like it very much. I finished it, of course, but it has borderline racist overtones. The African-American characters are very "stereotypical." Also, the timeline throughout the book is scattered and off. The stories are all over the place and it doesn't seem for most of the book to be a cohesive, coherent story. It reads mostly like a lonely old woman babbling to a younger woman at a nursing home about the "good old days." Mrs. Threadgoode (the old woman) and Evelyn Couch do strike up a friendship, but I just didn't get emotionally invested in the characters. Lastly, it seems like a creative writing class project and not a published novel. It seems the author was going for a folksy feel, but it didn't work for me. Overall, I would not recommend this book. However, maybe this will be a rare occasion when the movie is better than the book (it definitely was!).