#Book Review: Black Cake
In their mother's story they meet a headstrong young woman who escaped her island home under suspicion of murder. Who is she and what bearing do her actions have on their family?
The truth is seldom simple, as estranged siblings Byron and Benny discover when they arrive home for their mother’s funeral in California, only to discover that she has left them a voice recording that threatens to unravel everything they ever knew to be true.
In Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson investigates how food connects people – specifically a traditional Caribbean black cake made from a family recipe that binds mother, daughter and grandmother across time.
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But will it be enough to heal the wounds of the past?
Wilkerson’s first novel is thoroughly enchanting, with beautifully flawed characters who must come to terms with who they are in spite of the challenges they face.
It is, however, a pity that the author indulges herself in bouts of preachy discourse around the struggle of being black, where a subtler approach would have been more effective.
This is the book’s only real failing.
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