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The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
by Fannie Flagg
It’s typical Fannie Flagg, and perfect pandemic reading if what you crave is happy endings. It brings a lot of people back from the Whistle Stop café and extends their lives forwards to 2017, which means that in that time frame a lot of the original characters have died or will die during the book, but usually not so sadly but at the end of a long life well lived. It hops back and forth between various time frames – 1930s, 1970s, 1990s 200s and almost to the present which can be confusing. I did need to check which decade I was entering with every chapter. It is predictable in that you know that everything will work out well for the main characters and the rare baddy will get his comeuppance. Almost too much of a happy ending. Really? That’s really going to happen? Well, yes in Whistle Stop it can and will. A good read and right for the times.