The novel is set in Alabama in the 1930s and the 1980s. Over the years, I have read this book several times-it is often my ‘easing into summer’ book. But it’s also just a wonderful story with a cast of the most charming characters, an equally charming setting, and a perfect mix of comedy, heartache, and mystery. It’s possible that, at the time, the sweet tale of two women sharing a life together spoke to a part of me that had yet to come fully to the surface. I’m not sure how I happened upon it, but I fell in love with it immediately. The first time I read Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg, I was in high school. So, given that it’s the end of the school year, which means it’s also almost summer, I’m offering a review from my heart and soul (rather than from my brain) of a book that is one of my favorite summer reads and simply one of my favorite books of all time. It’s the end of the school year and while I have been reading for pleasure, I’m not sure I have the capacity to write an intellectually stimulating review that will do justice to any of the books I’ve just read.
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