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“This is a memoir by Kitt Shapiro, the daughter of Eartha Kitt, the great jazz musician and singer. She’s writing about her life with her mother, with whom she spent a lot of time. In her career, Earth Kitt was not allowed in many places in America. She was more welcome abroad, so she performed a lot to Europe—but she didn’t want to leave her daughter behind. So Kitt travelled with Eartha as a child, then as a young person, and eventually became her manager. The memoir doesn’t gloss over the hard times, and hard things that happened in Eartha’s career and in her relationship with Kitt—but it is also extremely loving and warm. It’s a powerful story that really makes you appreciate Eartha and her career and the challenges she faced. It was a very hard time to be a black musician in the world, and yet she achieved such fame.” Read more...
Robin Whitten, Journalist
