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Did You Hear about Kitty Karr?: A Novel

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John daughters—Elise, Giovanni, and Noele— have gathered at the family’s fabulous (complete with Ferris wheel! This debut novel is about fictional actress Kitty Karr and her rise to fame and her beneficiaries who will uncover Kitty’s secrets. Kitty had written out twenty-five invitations to her own memorial service for her lawyer to mail after her death. So just keep that in mind that this novel puts you right in the middle of the action right away, at least for Elise’s storyline. But more than that, the plot itself felt poorly constructed, and I couldn’t understand much of the point beyond giving us the perspective after Kitty’s death.

Out of the 2 timelines, I found the past one a lot more interesting - the characters in the present timeline were not as engaging but it was still a great story overall. Kitty's story, beginning with her mother's sexual assault, is harrowing at times, but the novel deftly weaves together a complex portrait of what women who passed gained and lost along the way. Too Many Side Characters: There are so many characters and names mentioned in this book, and a lot of them are easily forgotten and it causes certain plot points to not hit as hard as it could.What is less obvious, by design, are the steps many people took to create new lives for themselves once they reached LA from less hospitable places. The fog was low and thick, so she removed her heels before descending to the third tier of yard and through the vegetable garden that hid her father’s studio. is reminiscent of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Vanishing Half, both of which I highly recommend. Though Paul crowds the narrative with far too many underdeveloped characters and makes a few too many implausible plot leaps, she ably describes Kitty’s transformation and unflinchingly details the racism, misogyny, and exploitation Kitty faced as a young woman.

It would've been easy to put this book down and never pick it back up had it not for those I was reading with.The theme of passing is just as relevant as it was in the past, and people’s identities, backgrounds, and hardships are still just as valid and will never be overdone or tropey when the underlying causes, such as racism, permeate every facet of society and every Black American family tree. Some came right out and asked it, and social media was a cauldron of racist epithets; it was Meghan Markle hysteria times three. My apologies to Reese, but I’m not a fan of the author’s narrative structure and storytelling techniques. Elise could mimic emotions she didn’t feel on command but had no ability to express the ones that were true. Paul’s sprawling multigenerational debut hits the ground running with a peek at the complicated family life of an iconic, privacy-seeking clan of Hollywood stars: the St.

Kitty Karr becomes a famous Hollywood actress who has made very difficult choices in her life and has had challenging decisions made for her. With a plot worthy of a miniseries, an extensive cast, and a historical sweep, Paul succeeds in entertaining as well as enlightening. But what she discovers in one of Kitty’s journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could—and between a cheating fiancé and the fallout from a controversial social media post, there are plenty. Sequestered for a week already, Elise found her stress now was compounded by her sisters’ pending arrival.John family, the world is baffled as to why the white Hollywood legend left her fortune to three Black women of no relation to her. Prior to becoming a mom, I could spend hours reading books at night until the morning—knowing very well I could sleep in the next day. Crystal Smith Paul attended Spelman College and UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and received her master’s in journalism from NYU. Suspended amid the canopy of the thick sycamore branches, it was hidden from those on the ground but had an enchanted bird’s-eye view of the four-tiered grounds and the entirety of Los Angeles below the hill upon which the St.

My only real issue with this book was the early flashbacks of Kitty’s childhood story were a bit slow, but beyond that everything was great. And don’t even get me started on the reviews saying “Taylor Jenkins Reid did it better in Evelyn Hugo”. The "Present": This book is set in 2017, which is mostly due to the racial undertones of the book and that time in the US and has dual timelines between the past and "present" (2017) until we come upon the current conflict.The world danced around the one question burning holes of curiosity in everyone’s minds: Why had the White Hollywood icon given her fortune to the Black (“Black” being the key word) daughters of her costar in a sitcom that first aired almost fifty years ago? John, one of three sisters who have been rich and famous since birth because of their parents' talents. Of course, the media hides their racism by simply saying she should have left it to Charity, rather than three women who are already millionaires in their own right. Elise is the family’s latest star of the silver screen and up for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

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