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. A graduate of Barnard College and Stanford University, she is a former. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.Ĭan Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor’s true history, and fulfill her final request to “share the black cake when the time is right”? Will their mother’s revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?Ĭharmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. Charmaine Wilkerson is an American writer who has lived in Jamaica and is based in Italy. I am sitting down with Charmaine Wilkerson, author of the New York Times bestseller novel Black Cake. It is a cloudy late afternoon in Rome and crowds of tourists are back in Piazza Navona. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. Identity, heritage, and culinary traditions: a conversation with Charmaine Wilkerson, author of Black Cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording.
“Wilkerson transports you across the decades and around the globe accompanied by complex, wonderfully drawn characters.”-Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & The Six, and Malibu Rising
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