- American literature, New York Times bestseller, Brothers and sisters, Fiction
Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. 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.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Charmaine Wilkerson
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 408
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Ballantine Books, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593358351
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