When her father’s gambling addiction gets out of hand, he promises his daughter in marriage to a local underworld crime figure.
She is being raised by her father, an Asian immigrant who runs a small convenience store. Covey is in love with a surfer, Gilbert Gibbs, who dreams of going to London to study law. Bunny struggles with romantic feelings for Covey, which she never shares. Her best friend, Bunny, loves to swim with her, the two pushing each other to new distances. This study guide uses the first-edition hardcover version, published by Ballentine Books in 2022.Ĭovey Lyncook, a teenager growing up on a remote Caribbean island in the early 1960s, delights in swimming long distances in the beautiful waters around her island.
Even before it was published to critical praise, Black Cake was optioned by Oprah Winfrey’s production company to be developed into a limited series on Hulu. In the grand tradition of storytelling that recalls the landmark works of realism of the 19th century, the novel is structured, nevertheless, in the distinctly postmodern tradition of nonlinear narratives with chapters that jump across time and move between multiple points of view.
In Eleanor Bennett’s tumultuous life, the novel explores the nature of identity itself, the way in which cultures combine within families, and how generation to generation a family shapes its own history. The novel uses as its organizing motif the black cake, a traditional Caribbean dessert, with its wide variety of sweet ingredients, all of which blend to make a sublime confection.
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