Books like Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Evelyn Couch, an unhappy Birmingham housewife, befriends Ninny Threadgoode at a nursing home, and Ninny tells her the story of the Whistle Stop Cafe in 1930s Alabama and the two women who ran it, Idgie and Ruth.
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A Redbird Christmas
Oswald T. Campbell, told by his Chicago doctor that he won't survive another winter, moves to Lost River, a small town in Alabama, and meets a little girl and a redbird.
The Celebrants
Five friends from college once promised to hold a funeral for one another while they were still alive to hear the eulogies, and nearly thirty years on, Jordan calls them to a house in Big Sur to use his.
The Reivers
An eleven-year-old Mississippi boy and two friends steal his grandfather's car and drive it to a Memphis brothel.
Boy's Life
In the spring of 1964 in Zephyr, Alabama, young Cory Mackenson is out on the milk round with his father when a car plunges into Saxon's Lake, and his father dives in after it to find a dead man handcuffed to the wheel.
Looking for Alaska
Miles Halter leaves Florida for a boarding school in Alabama in search of what Rabelais called the Great Perhaps, and finds it in his new friends and in Alaska Young, a clever, reckless girl who pulls him into her orbit.
Tom Lake
In the spring of 2020, Lara and her three grown daughters pick cherries on the family orchard in northern Michigan, and the girls make her tell them about the summer she acted at Tom Lake with a future movie star.
Go Set a Watchman
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch comes home from New York to Maycomb, Alabama, in the mid-1950s for her annual visit and discovers that her father Atticus, and the town that raised her, are not what she believed.
Kin
Vernice and Annie, two motherless girls who grew up as best friends in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, take very different paths through the Jim Crow South of the 1950s, Vernice to Spelman College in Atlanta and a world of privilege, Annie in search of the mother who left her.
Where the Heart Is
Novalee Nation, seventeen and seven months pregnant, is left by her boyfriend at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, and secretly makes the store her home.
The Secret Life of Bees
In 1964 South Carolina a fourteen-year-old white girl runs off with her black housekeeper to a pink house kept by three beekeeping sisters who know the secret of her dead mother.
Slow Dance
Shiloh and Cary were inseparable at their Omaha high school, then lost touch. Fourteen years later, she is a divorced mother of two and he is in the navy, and they meet again at a friend's wedding.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
A skeleton found in a Pottstown well cracks open decades of buried history among Black, Jewish, and immigrant residents of a hillside neighbourhood.