![]() Shortly after Brooks dies of a heart attack in 2013, their two children leave Atlanta, and Ruthie receives a call from her father Bud’s retirement community saying Bud’s gone missing. In 1985, Ruth’s granddaughter, Ruthie, gets engaged to Brooks, an Atlanta society man. ![]() Over time, townspeople scatter yet remain connected by Dot’s yearly holiday letters. In its heyday, Dot Weems ran the post office and published a town newsletter (“No gossip, just the plain facts, folks!”), and best friends Ruth and Idgie ran the Whistle Stop Cafe. As the characters age, they reflect on the 1930s, when the town was a lively, bustling place-but time hasn’t been kind to the hamlet, and it has become decrepit. ![]() Flagg’s memorable cast returns to Whistle Stop, Ala., made famous in Fried Green Tomatoes, in this heartfelt saga. ![]()
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