Quite the treat. My grandmother is southern but being raised by Midwest parents, I didn't live this way. But I see a lot of my grandmother in Ninny. The stories are quite lovely. It's a time capsule of how awful things were for poor people and Black folks. It's been ages since I saw the movie but I wanted to read the book for the gay ladies. It's sweet if not dated with some of the language (white people are notoriously awful in the south of course) but a good picture of the Depression era south and how progress may or may not have happened by 1986.