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The story begins in present-day California with the death of Eleanor Bennett. She leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two estranged children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake (based on a family recipe) and an eight-hour voice recording.
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ISBN: 9781405950084
Book Format: Paperback / softback
Pages: 432
Dimensions: 12.8 × 2.6 × 19.6 cm
In the recording, Eleanor reveals a hidden past they never suspected—the story of a headstrong young swimmer who fled her island home under suspicion of murder. As the siblings listen, they are forced to confront long-buried secrets, a mysterious long-lost child, and the realization that their mother was not at all who they thought she was. It is a story about how the things we inherit—names, recipes, and secrets—shape who we become.
Charmaine Wilkerson is the author of Black Cake, a New York Times-bestselling novel. An American writer, she spent much of her childhood living in the Caribbean and is now based in Italy. She is a former television journalist and an award-winning writer of short fiction. Her debut novel Black Cake was adapted for the screen as a Hulu original series airing on Disney+ and produced by Oprah Winfrey' s Harpo Films, Marissa Jo Cerar and Kapital Entertainment.
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