![]() By the 1990s, it turns out, the whole town is in ruins and its denizens in diaspora throughout the South, mostly kept in touch by Dot Weems, who eventually replaced her long-running newsletter, The Weems Weekly, with Christmas letters and occasional bulletins. The update includes several of the original characters-largely a bunch of good-hearted white people and a couple of meanies-from a small town outside Birmingham, Alabama. That sound you hear? A gazillion fans rejoicing. The setting of Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1987), beloved both in print and on film, returns in a sweet ol’ novel which could not possibly be less of the moment. ![]() Back to the Whistle Stop Cafe, in a story ranging from the 1930s to the present day. ![]()
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