Flagg, Fannie

Evelyn Couch, a woman caught in the slump of middle age, gains a new outlook on life when she befriends eighty-year-old Ninny Threadgoode 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.

The late citizens of a small Missouri community wake up underground after death and reconnect with loved ones over the course of 150 years before some of them begin to actually disappear, prompting a town-wide investigation.

Mrs. Sookie Poole has married off the last of her three daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and traveling, but she still has to deal with her overbearing mother. When Sookie discovers a family secret, a search for answers takes her to California, the Midwest, and back in time to the 1940s.

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.

Coming-of-age story as a lonely teenage is transformed into a flamboyant beauty contestant.

Chronicles the rise of fictional Alabama girl Dena Nordstrom to the top of 1970s television newscasting in New York, amid heavy drinking, ulcer pain, dysfunction, therapy, and professional intrigue.