Did You Hear about Kitty Karr?: A Novel

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It pained her to acquiesce, but with ten years of acting and five hundred million dollars in box office sales under her belt, Elise’s life hadn’t belonged to her in years.

In the process, Elise discovers something about Kitty that she did not know and in so doing, discovers something about herself, as well. Giovanni, happy to flee cold Canada, had donned Bermuda jean shorts and a cropped, open-backed fuzzy violet sweater that displayed her ebony skin.I liked the multigenerational story told over an expansive timeline including old Hollywood and more present day. 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.

They seemed quickly slapped together, which was evident in the lack of coherency and eloquence in the prose. Overall these chapters just dragged as again we're introduced to more unhappy, unmemorable characters. John is one of three sisters who have been rich and famous since birth because of their parents’ talents.The author has a way of not allowing you to sympathize with characters without presenting the painful facts. Some characters were introduced, and yet we spent no time understanding who they were or why they were important to Kitty. Kitty quit acting in her early fifties and, aside from a few rare public appearances, hadn’t been photographed in more than twenty years. In the 1930s and 40s, Hazel is a black single mother raising a white-passing child in segregated North Carolina. When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St.