Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross

Yay for this book!  Finally I've found another book that I can get sucked into.  The reason I decided to check this book out is because on the front cover, Fannie Flagg said she loved it.  Fannie Flagg, as you may or may not know, is one of my fave authors but devastatingly, she hasn't published anything in half of forever.  OK, OK, guess you want to know about the story, huh?  Miss Julia is a recent widow who just finds out her upstanding citizen/banker/church elder/community leader (not to mention deceased) husband had an illegitimate lovechild.  And how does she find this out, you may ask?  Well, after the husband is dead, the baby mama just drops her 9 year old son on Miss Julia's doorstep and takes off for beauty school.  What is this strong, proud, moral southern woman to do but parade Little Lloyd around town so everyone will know what her hub was doing all those "late nights" at the office.  She's getting a lot of flack from the church who wants her husband's money to expand the church.  Everyone is gossiping about her and it turns out the whole town had been suspecting her husband of cheating all along.  Great book, I love it.  And I'm really excited to read the other Miss Julia book as well.