What was your favorite part of the story? Favorite location and time period? The character who interested you the most?ĥ. Why do you think she specifically made this request? What would have been different if Benny and Byron had listened to everything separately?Ĥ. Mitch, Benny and Byron to listen to the voice message she left behind when all together. Why do you think Eleanor kept her story from her children for so long and only shared it posthumously? What do you think is more complicated: the secrets you keep or the secrets you share?ģ. What was the most surprising part of her past for you? The saddest? The most interesting?Ģ. In BLACK CAKE, Eleanor Bennett leaves behind a voice recording for her children, disclosing the story of her life.
Spoiler warning! Key plot points are discussed in the questions below, so if you have not finished reading BLACK CAKE yet, please skip this part and come back later.ġ. 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. 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. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder.
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. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, NPR, BuzzFeed, Glamour, PopSugar, Book Riot, She Reads In development as a Hulu original series produced by Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey (Harpo Films), and Kapital Entertainment “Wilkerson transports you across the decades and around the globe accompanied by complex, wonderfully drawn characters.”-Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & The Six, and Malibu Rising Two estranged siblings delve into their mother’s hidden past-and how it all connects to her traditional Caribbean black cake-in this immersive family saga, “a character-driven, multigenerational story that’s meant to be savored” (Time).READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY.
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