Flagg, Fannie

Former Miss Alabama Maggie, working as a real estate agent and questioning her happiness, is thrown into a series of surprising discoveries that opens her eyes to truths about friendship, life, and dreams.

Oswald T. Campbell, given the news that he only has a short time left to live, takes his doctor's recommendation that he leave Chicago and move to a milder climate, and ends up in Redbird, Alabama, where his involvement with a young orphan, a matchmaking widow, and a redbird named Jack, restores his heart and his health.

Oswald T. Campbell, given the news that he only has a short time left to live, takes his doctor's recommendation that he leave Chicago and move to a milder climate, and ends up in Redbird, Alabama, where his involvement with a young orphan, a matchmaking widow, and a redbird named Jack, restores his heart and his health.

Elderly Elner Shimfissle's fall from a tree while picking figs sets off a chain of events that leaves the residents of small Elmwood Springs, Missouri, pondering the meaning of life.

Evelyn Couch, a woman caught in the slump of middle age, gains a new outlook on life when she befriends eighty-year-old Ninny Threadgood who tells her the story of the Whistle Stop Cafe and the two women who ran it in the 1930s, best friends Idgie and Ruth.

Ten-year-old Bobby Smith, son of the local pharmacist and the host of the radio show "Neighbor Dorothy," grows to manhood in Elmwood, Missouri, observing the people and the changes that affect the small town in the decades after the end of World War II.

Evelyn Couch hears 80 year old Ninny Threadgoode's life story which centers on a cafe in the railroad town of Whistle Stop, Ala., and on Idgie and Ruth, the two women who own the cafe.

Middle aged Evelyn Couch, befriends eighty-year-old Ninny Threadgood, who tells her the story of the Whistle Stop Cafe and the two women who ran it in the 1930s.