There is a certain allure to Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe and I'm never sure what exactly is the reason. Maybe it's the setting of the novel or the time periods it covers. Maybe it's the relationship between Idgie and Ruth or all the characters. Or the mystery that pulls all the stories together. But Fried Green Tomatoes is an excellent read. Sometimes we read to be entertained and this is the novel to choose.

The story follows a woman, Evelyn, who visits a nursing home to meet a woman, Ninny, who reflects on her past. The nostalgia starts to build, but not of a simpler time. Everything is complicated. Yet food brings all the characters together especially when Idgie and Ruth open the Whistle Stop Cafe. Little bits and pieces of their life are shown throughout the novel as the readers falls in love with them.

It's a slice of life novel and doesn't string a plot together to bind the characters. As Evelyn starts to hear more about the lives of Ruth and Idgie along with the rest of Whistle Stop, she is able to start searching for herself as a person. She feels lost as the world starts to change during the 1980s after such changes in the 60's and 70's.

Whenever somebody says they are looking for a light read, this is the book that I suggest. It's excellent, fun, tragic and wonderful. I cannot stop thinking about the events that all the characters pushed through and the little enlightening bits and pieces that their lives offer.