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notmorgan95 's review for:
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg
This book is largely about a small town in Alabama ranging in time from the 30s to the 80s. It has a charming and folksy feel that I think appealed to most people who reviewed it highly, and that part was nice. But the extremely racist language and depiction of black people in this book (throughout the entire time period the book covers, up to the late 1980s) ruins it for me. It was published in 1987 so it’s not like the language that was FREQUENTLY used in the book was part of common dialect when it was written. The N word is used constantly, even in contexts where it’s doing nothing to further the story. If the author was trying to make a point about race by using the language she did, she way overshot it, did too much, and missed the point completely.