Black Cake

I jumped into this 2022 release after reading and loving Wilkerson's sophomore novel, Good Dirt. At once a family saga, a sibling story, and historical fiction surrounding a family secret, Black Cake introduces us to the Bennett family. When the matriarch Eleanor Bennett dies, her children inherit a strange legacy: a black cake made from an old family recipe and an audio recording in which Eleanor finally clues her children in to the identity-upending secrets she's been keeping for decades.