Program Type:
Book ClubAge Group:
Adults- Registration is required for this event.
- Registration will close on September 9, 2026 @ 4:00pm.
- This event uses combined registration. If you register for this event, you will also be registering for all other occurrences.
- A library card is required to register for this event.
Program Description
Event Details
Online registration required (monthly).
Interactive Program via Zoom with volunteer moderator John Spera and Library staff. Hosted the second Wednesday of the month.
This program is supported by donations to the Friends of the Lighthouse Point Library and the Barker Library Fund.
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?
In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.
Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor’s true history, and fulfill her final request to “share the black cake when the time is right”? Will their mother’s revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?
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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