February 1: Charmaine Wilkerson – Black Cake (Ballantine) When Eleanor Bennett dies, she leaves her children, Byron and Benny, an audio recording and an old family recipe for black cake, a Caribbean specialty. Eleanor tells a cryptic story of murder, romance, and a lost child, upending the family history and identity Byron and Benny previously believed. They have to patch up their fraught relationship to figure out the whole story of their family’s life from the Caribbean to California.
Booth and French Braid... I can hardly wait!