Did You Hear about Kitty Karr?: A Novel

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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. It starts with the death of Kitty Karr Tate, a White silver screen legend, who leaves her entire estate to the St. They seemed quickly slapped together, which was evident in the lack of coherency and eloquence in the prose.

Not to mention I think once kitty did become famous especially anytime after 1998 and the Internet people would’ve found out her real heritage people are writing reviews like this book is so profound but it really is stereo typical you have the African-American billionaire family yet they all smoke pot and then you got kitty car who was taught as a young child to pass as a white person and then essentially given up by her mom to do just that is it she couldn’t ever speak or see her mom again but I guess everyone loves this book I myself did not I usually love the books I get from Henry Holt and Company but this one not so much. An ambitious novel, illuminating the complexities of racial identity, particularly what it means to be Black in Hollywood no matter the era.Crystal Smith Paul attended Spelman College and UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and received her master’s in journalism from NYU. Elise is the family’s latest star of the silver screen and up for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Before we get to Kitty, we first follow the lives of Hazel and Mary, a Black mother and daughter pair living in North Carolina in the 1940s.

He would continue sleeping on the floor of a friend’s apartment for another year, but it was the first time he realized he could—even as a Black man—make money doing what he loved. I finished this hoping for an author's note because this raises so many questions, but perhaps they're meant not to be answered. It’s just the story, didn’t have what it took to feel like the intention of Kitty’s journey, and how we ended up reading her story, really mattered in the end. A year ago, the sisters had all promised to come home to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their parents’ legendary Halloween costume party. Historical fiction isn't my go-to but I found this novel about Black women passing in Hollywood riveting.Tom’s mouth moved as if he was about to say caliente, but instead, he merely extended his hands to open dialogue.

Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published. I love to read and review various genres with a focus on contemporary fiction, historical fiction with some mysteries/thrillers and also select nonfiction and memoirs. There were many things about this book that caused me to pause in ponder weather I wanted to continue reading it for one thing why would you make an affluent family the pot smokers I thought that was so odd and then when Hazel gave Mary all that money to go away and live as a white woman that’s the first time I really considered to stop reading the book for one thing Hazel didn’t know Mary would become a famous actress so she is essentially giving her daughter up to go live a life with strangers is it a life with no family but as a white person is much better than a life with family and being around those you love.She was two decades older than both Elise and Rebecca and had never been impressed with Rebecca, whose childhood playmate had been her first and only client for the last ten years. Having said that, this storyline of black women trying to or having to pass as white has been way overdone in the past year or two. The decisions that Kitty and her mom had to make, the historical aspects of this book, were thought provoking and heart breaking.