Did You Hear about Kitty Karr?: A Novel

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Elise caught Andy’s eye in the rearview as they sailed through the twenty-foot-tall black iron gates of the estate. Days after Noele’s NYU graduation, Giovanni, the middle daughter, had moved to Toronto to film what became a hit AMC show. 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. This author has given readers an extremely interesting storyline that can be discussed for quite some time. What it tells me is that you either 1) do not have Black friends, or 2) you DO have Black friends but they don’t tell you anything of substance because they see you for what you are.

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. When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. But suffice it to say the novel presents many thought provoking conversations on race and the experiences of Black women in America, both past and present. 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.

No one can figure out why an aging white actress would bestow her immense inheritance on three Black girls, but Kitty has left Elise in charge of settling her estate.

I feel like we didn't get enough about Elise, her mother, her father, or her sisters, or any of the people at the memorial. Everyone but Elise and a couple others seem terrified of letting Kitty's secret out, but it's not clearly explained why.Hidden behind the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood were real lives (and heartbreaking, necessary, lies).