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Black Cake
- 408 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 2022
- 11 editions
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1 About this book
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.
- Brothers and sisters
- Mothers
- Death
- Family life
- Family secrets
- Siblings
- Inheritance and succession
2 About Charmaine Wilkerson
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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