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Black Cake: A Novel

byCharmaine Wilkerson

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. Black Cake combines character, setting, dialogue, and narrative tension, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of fiction, Black Cake explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. By the end, the novel emerges as a layered story of competing motives, unintended results, and choices made under pressure.

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Publication date

Feb 01, 2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

400

ISBN

9780593358337