Did You Hear about Kitty Karr?: A Novel

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Johns had issued a statement asking for privacy, but interest in the notoriously private family only quadrupled.

This debut novel is about fictional actress Kitty Karr and her rise to fame and her beneficiaries who will uncover Kitty’s secrets. And don’t even get me started on the reviews saying “Taylor Jenkins Reid did it better in Evelyn Hugo”. 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.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. A compelling odyssey into the consequences our choices can have across history and generations, the moral complexities of those choices, and the devastating secrets hidden behind even the most glamorous and opulent of lives and the most 'pristine' family trees. With a plot worthy of a miniseries, an extensive cast, and a historical sweep, Paul succeeds in entertaining as well as enlightening.

I finished this hoping for an author's note because this raises so many questions, but perhaps they're meant not to be answered. These chapters read like they had been either inserted or entirely re-written much more recently, and thus did not feel fully developed.My apologies to Reese, but I’m not a fan of the author’s narrative structure and storytelling techniques. The tributes were numerous, and her films and decade-long-running television show shot to the top of digital sales. is an intoxicating and seductive debut, drawing you into an underground Hollywood world that is as glamorous as it is dangerous. Paul's debut is a riveting, often heartbreaking tale that explores race, privilege, and celebrity in America through the eyes of a one-of-a-kind character. The world danced around the one question burning holes of curiosity in everyone’s minds: Why had the White Hollywood icon given her fortune to the Black (“Black” being the key word) daughters of her costar in a sitcom that first aired almost fifty years ago?