Black Cake - Charmaine Wilkerson
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This is a sweeping, multi generational, multi emotionally layered novel.
Beautifully written, I liked unique way of unveiling the story, with their deceased mother leaving a lengthy recording that disclosed years of family secrets. There is so much here; family relationships and regrets, Caribbean culture and diaspora, colonialism, racism.
The time frame shifted between then and now, but it was never confusing.
There were a number of characters, some of them with multiple names, but, again, never confusing as all was eventually revealed.
*****
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