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Eartha & Kitt
A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White
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Narrated by:
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Karen Chilton
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Written by:
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Kitt Shapiro
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Patricia Weiss Levy
About this listen
In this unique combination of African American music and cultural history, we come to know one of the greatest stars the world has ever seen - Eartha Kitt - as revealed by the person who knew her best, her daughter.
Eartha, who was a mix of Black, Cherokee, and White, identified as Black, but Kitt, her biological daughter by a White man, is blonde and pale. This is the story of a little White girl raised by her natural mother, who was the biggest Black celebrity in the world. For three decades before Kitt married, they traveled the world together, mother and daughter.
Eartha came from a hard background (she was born on a cotton plantation) and did not have her own familial ties to lean on - she and Kitt were each other’s whole world.
Eartha’s legacy is still felt today: We still listen to “Santa Baby” every Christmas, she starred as Helen of Troy opposite Orson Welles in Dr. Faustus, and she stole the show as Yzma in The Emperor's New Groove. Lupita Nyong'o was recently asked to name the two people she admired most. She chose Eartha Kitt and Katherine Hepburn.
In this audiobook, Eartha Kitt comes to life so vividly you’ll feel as if you'd met her. Filled with love and poignant laughter, Eartha & Kitt captures the passion and energy of two remarkable women.
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- IAN PASMORE
- 2022-07-24
Good life-skills taught by example
If I were a high-school or college teacher, I'd use this book for English and or for family studies. The grammar is perfect. Subject matter flows well and it covers why good communication matters logically. I think it makes the reader realize and appreciate good language skills without the reader seeing it as a text book.
For family and life skills, it teaches excellence. I don't believe parent/child relationship should be that of "best friends". Eartha and, daughter, Kitt are so close they may appear to be best friends but, I believe they achieved the closeness that those who want to be best friends with their children really want.
The book teaches how to stand for what one believes is right without taking up arms. Eartha took up causes. She stood up for the under dog without leading a protest march or picking up a gun.
best of all, all of the above is disguised in a very endearing story.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I.
Ian Pasmore, Rockwood, ON., Canada
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