Evelyn Couch goes to the nursing home with her husband as he visits
his mother ever week. Evelyn quickly gives her best wishes and then
hurries out to the waiting room. It is hear that she meets Ninny
Threadgoode, an 86 year old woman who starts taking from the second
Evelyn sits down. Ninny talks about the past, not her life, but the
life of all the people she used to know and especially Idgie and
Ruth two very special friends. Evelyn becomes caught up in this
story and ultimately her life is changed forever.
The story is told through very short chapters that move back and
forth through time. There are several narratives: the past, the
present and local newsletters and newspapers. We follow the
Threadgoode family and all their kin and townsfolk from the late
1920s through the 1980s.
This is absolutely a beautiful, wonderful, funny, heartwarming,
story. Not much really happens plotwise, it's just a story of the
lives of a group of people. The characters are just so truly
wonderful I could not put the book down and when I had finished I
was so sorry it was over. It's a story of good times and bad times,
white folks and black folks, deaths and accidents, the young'uns
and the old folks and how all together these things are a part of
life. Wonderful book. Read it.