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Black Cake: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel
In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings deal with their mother’s death and her hidden past—a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake.
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Poignant, suspenseful and so well written. An amazing journey about families, individuals and the ties that both estrange and bind us
What drew me into this book is the story of Eleanor and a look into Caribbean culture. Those parts of the book were well written. The intersection with current day Benny and Byron was in some parts successful and in many ways not. And as another reviewer stated, towards the end it seems like the author felt the need to throw every social/political issue into the mix that she could think of which detracted from the storyline. I really struggled to finish it.
The story kept me reading, I wanted the family to heal. It was surprising that the parents were able to maintain their fake identity for so many years.
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