Did You Hear about Kitty Karr?: A Novel

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Now the Internet’s going to be flooded with hypothetical stories about my wedding, when it’s supposed to be flooded with news about my movie,” Elise complained in the car. The book is primed to open up a lot of really nuanced conversations, not only publicly but within Black and white families.

Underdeveloped and/or Boring Main Characters: Elise, the older sister and our main point of view, seemed miserable in her life yet also unwilling to do anything about it until Kitty's gift which made for a chore to read. That said, the book does address several important issues: racism, colorism within the Black community, and sexism within the Hollywood machine. 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. There were multiple times I read a sentence and had to think to myself, what was the point of that information.John, one of three sisters who have been rich and famous since birth because of their parents' talents. When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St.

She starts to break after she has her too dark skinned baby who she allows her midwife to adopt so she isn’t outed by her husband. There’s a ton of characters in the Elise storyline right at the beginning and it was a little hard to keep track of. John daughters—Elise, Giovanni, and Noele— have gathered at the family’s fabulous (complete with Ferris wheel! Perhaps more poignant are the brave and strategic choices made by prior generations of women determined to secure better lives for their children with no assurances that those choices would be rewarded. 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.I think while of course, there are things that happen to Kitty, she makes the choice to go along with it too. Kitty Karr becomes a famous Hollywood actress who has made very difficult choices in her life and has had challenging decisions made for her. In addition to the regular and intrusive press coverage to which the family is subjected, the media is anxious to find out why the three Black St.