Did You Hear about Kitty Karr?: A Novel

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To complicate matters, her neighbor and friend Kitty Karr, has left her in charge of settling her estate. If you suspend the leaf and common sense then you may love the book as many people do but what I thought of thinking about the whole premise and giving up your family or your family giving you up none of it sounded believable. It was no easy feat competing with politics, and the pause in presidential tweet reports spoke to the breadth of Kitty’s legacy. Let me start off by saying that themes of race, passing, Jim Crow laws/era and being black in America, whether it's now or in the past are all very relevant topics and a part of history.

I liked the multigenerational story told over an expansive timeline including old Hollywood and more present day. With a plot worthy of a miniseries, an extensive cast, and a historical sweep, Paul succeeds in entertaining as well as enlightening. The author has a way of not allowing you to sympathize with characters without presenting the painful facts.Tom’s mouth moved as if he was about to say caliente, but instead, he merely extended his hands to open dialogue. On the main street, the paparazzi, who usually waited in the enclave outside the Bel Air gates, spotted Andy and jumped into a van to follow. Some came right out and asked it, and social media was a cauldron of racist epithets; it was Meghan Markle hysteria times three. Now she's been nominated for an Oscar that could expand her successful acting career, but she's not sure if that's what she wants.

And don’t even get me started on the reviews saying “Taylor Jenkins Reid did it better in Evelyn Hugo”. The story became a lot more interesting to me after it opened up a second timeline about a single mother in the segregated South in the 1930s-50s. Spanning multiple generations, the story focuses on White actress and celebrity icon of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Kitty Karr. Elise caught Andy’s eye in the rearview as they sailed through the twenty-foot-tall black iron gates of the estate.When Kitty Karr, a movie star from the golden age of Hollywood, passes, she leaves her immense fortune to the St. I feel like every time I’m not overly impressed with the BOTM picks, I wind up loving the one that I picked. She stayed on the Perch until her 6:00 am alarm for her workout, mandatory for her anxiety management.

She’d been awake almost twenty-four hours, and Elise could see the rhythm of her mania, although to her sisters it probably looked like excitement. Sequestered for a week already, Elise found her stress now was compounded by her sisters’ pending arrival. A year ago, the sisters had all promised to come home to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their parents’ legendary Halloween costume party. As the pieces came together connecting these 2 timelines, the story really captured my heart and opened up a lot of questions about everything we inherit due to our family, race, and gender. I think while of course, there are things that happen to Kitty, she makes the choice to go along with it too.My apologies to Reese, but I’m not a fan of the author’s narrative structure and storytelling techniques. It was interesting all that Kitty had to go through in her life and to find out how her life intertwined with the other women in this book. The decisions that Kitty and her mom had to make, the historical aspects of this book, were thought provoking and heart breaking.