![]() ![]() A screen series based on the novel is currently under development for Hulu.Īnancy and Miss Lou by Louise Bennett (Sangster’s Book Stores) ![]() Her debut novel Black Cake is a New York Times bestseller and a #ReadWithJenna book club pick. ![]() A former news and communication professional, she has published award-winning stories in various anthologies and magazines. Its success depended on the quality of the ingredients, but mostly on well you handled them.” Black Cake is the story of a mother, a woman, whose traumas and histories she hid from her children-children who, after her death, are forced to confront their mother’s past, as well as their own identities in light of such shocking revelations.Ĭharmaine Wilkerson is from New York, has lived in Jamaica, and does much of her writing in Italy. This week on The Write Question, Lauren speaks with novelist Charmaine Wilkerson, author of Black Cake (Ballantine Books), a novel about inheritances, small and profound-like a recipe for black cake, passed down from a mother to her children, learned by demonstration, conversation, and proximity Wilkerson writes in the novel, “baking black cake was like handling a relationship. ![]()
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