Charmaine Wilkerson's debut novel Black Cake is an emotional tour de force. When their mother dies, estranged siblings Byron and Benny return home to claim a most unusual inheritance. Their mother has left behind a traditional Caribbean black cake, a harrowing story of a woman fleeing her island home after being suspected of murder, and instructions to share the cake together "when the time is right." But first, Byron and Benny must solve the mystery of the secrets their mother kept from them and find their way to each other before they can truly understand where they come from.