Mary's Literary Lunch

I hope you tried Jeff Abbott and enjoyed the action. If not, please don’t forget about him...

Now let’s turn to humor. Ann B. Ross is a sensation! She introduced us to Miss Julia in 1999 and ten years later she is still going strong.

All southerners will immediately recognize Miss Julia. She is a prim and proper Presbyterian southern lady whose husband recently died and left her fairly well off. She is active in the church and does a lot of ‘talking to herself’ but rarely (Miss Julia) Speaks Her Mind. She has a ‘colored’ lady who helps around the house and actually is a good friend to her, but does not live in. They interact in a way that cannot help but make you laugh.

One day, knock, knock, knock…. There is a young, voluptuous woman AND her young son at the door. She tells Miss Julia the boy is her deceased husband’s child! Oh my! What to do? Miss Julia, being a Christian woman, invites them in and things progress from there. It turns out her husband has, indeed, been leading a double life, but that is no reason to penalize the child or his mother and Miss Julia actually is quite taken with both of them.

And that’s all I’m going to tease you with right now, except to say that Ann Ross has written a book a year for the past ten years about Miss Julia and her exploits and they are truly hilarious. You can start anywhere, but it truly is better if you begin at the beginning to get the full flavor of the characters. It’s worth it. GUYS, you will enjoy them, too.

Mary