It is truly a shame, because if the quality of the modern portion had been the same as the historical ones, it could have been a stellar book, rather than just a good one.

Elise and Aaron owned a modest (aka four-bedroom) house behind a sliding gate in West Hollywood and had been engaged for a year. It was the occasion they all loved most and, for that reason, it almost felt as though Kitty had planned her passing now, knowing her neighbors, the St. Black people come in all shades, and racism is still alive and kicking, so what makes you, a non-Black person, think that you would be able to clock someone who’s passing or that passing in general is just “unrealistic”? I listened to the audiobook narrated by Ariel Blake, Kineta Kunutu and Lynnette Nicholas and they were great. John estate, the labyrinth was constructed of leafy green hedges and rose bushes that increased in height and girth further into the maze.

James was a producer who played fourteen instruments, wrote and arranged music, and had a vocal range from Maxwell to Barry White. When Kitty Karr, a movie star from the golden age of Hollywood, passes, she leaves her immense fortune to the St. A multigenerational saga that traverses the Jim Crow South, the glamour of old Hollywood, and the seductive draw of present-day showbiz as secrets split a family tree into Black, white, and something in between.

My apologies to Reese, but I’m not a fan of the author’s narrative structure and storytelling techniques. It captured the horrors of racism, the tight bonds that tie us generationally, the nightmare that colorism causes in the Black community.

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. For fans of Evelyn Hugo and Dava Shastri's Last Day, a highly anticipated read that showcases a main character who sacrifices so much and relevant themes like motherhood, identity, and fame, but struggles to truly land on a message. It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder. Kitty Karr is an iconoclastic, complicated, and fascinating woman whose legacy is as relevant as ever today.