This revelation is shocking Byron and Benny had no idea that such a sister existed. “You two need to know about your sister.” “You children need to know about your family, about where we come from, about how I really met your father,” Eleanor says. Her son, Byron, is a renowned ocean scientist working on mapping the ocean floor, and his sister, Benny, is a bit of a lost soul who left the family eight years ago. When Eleanor Bennett dies in 2018, she leaves a recording with her lawyer, instructing her two adult children to listen to its full eight hours together. Readers will quickly find themselves immersed in a mysterious, gripping journey, one that unfolds in brief but bountiful chapters and even includes a suspected murder. The same could be said about its debut author, Charmaine Wilkerson, whose exquisitely paced family drama begins on a small unnamed Caribbean island in 1965 and quickly shifts to 2018, where it makes stops in London, Scotland, California and Rome. Byron and Benny learn the sacrifices, hardships, and sorrow their mother endured, while finding out more about themselves and their identities.“I write about foods with a strong sense of place,” notes a character in Black Cake. The story moves to Britain, where Covey experiences more tragedy. When Covey is accused of murder, she leaves home with only a wooden box and her mother’s black cake recipe. The siblings learn about Covey, who lives in the Caribbean, is abandoned by her mother at an early age, and falls for a boy named Gibbs. The siblings, who used to be inseparable, are instructed to listen to a recording their mother left, then share the black cake (her old family recipe for special occasions) “when the time is right.” The recording reveals a hidden past filled with tragedy and heartache neither child could have imagined. After 10 years apart, he sees his sister Benny at the reading of their mother’s will. Byron, a successful biologist, has stuck by his family through his father’s and now his mother’s deaths. DEBUT Wilkerson’s debut brings together two estranged siblings after the death of their mother, Eleanor.
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