Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?: A Novel

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She stayed on the Perch until her 6:00 am alarm for her workout, mandatory for her anxiety management. When the white television and film icon, reclusive in her later years, leaves behind her entire multi-mullion dollar estate to Elise, Giovanni, and Noele St. The friends head to Naomi’s parents’ vacation home in Big Sur, where they collectively grapple with the recent overdose death of the charismatic Alec.

To complicate matters, her neighbor and friend Kitty Karr, has left her in charge of settling her estate. John—three black sisters who have been famous since birth thanks to the accomplishments of their actress mother and musician father—the inheritance opens up a barrage of questions from the press and public.Elise wins the best actress Oscar and her in speech she reveals that Kitty is in fact her grandmother and in doing so reveals that Kitty was actually Black. As the pieces came together connecting these 2 timelines, the story really captured my heart and opened up a lot of questions about everything we inherit due to our family, race, and gender.

But what she discovers in one of Kitty’s journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could—and between a cheating fiancé and the fallout from a controversial social media post, there are plenty. How did the conclusion tie together the various narrative threads and themes, and did it satisfy your expectations as a reader?Working as a second cook for a wealthy family, Hazel is raped and impregnated by the heir to the family’s tobacco fortune.