Black Cake

Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, *Black Cake* is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch.

Set in

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  Jamaica · Jamaica

  The unnamed Caribbean island origin of Eleanor/Covey's story — loosely based on Jamaica, where the family's multigenerat
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• Los Angeles · United States

  Southern California where Eleanor Bennett, now elderly, leaves a recording for her adult children Byron and Benny after