![]() ![]() ![]() She never forgets to show the joy, to show the love. But she also take the time to show the audience old photos of herself as a girl in a swim cap, plus her favorite snapshots of Patsy and the boys when they were little, poking around a tide pool in Wales, their shoes clumped with wet sand. Black Cake(2022) is a family saga that chronicles more than half a century of one family’s journey, including its thwarted dreams, star-crossed loves, and dark secrets. She calls for the designation of additional protected zones. Brimming with wisdom, a moving story of two siblings who wend their way to reconciliation after losing their mother. Seafloor damage, runoff, plastics, rising water temperatures, overfishing. She uses every chance she can to talk about the health of the oceans. “Etta is swimming for her children now, and for their children, too, not for the records. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. ![]() Here’s a bit more of the quote, from page 372 of the hardcover, In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. Love and inheritance and all the bigger problems of the world that we can’t ignore or escape. I love this quote, which comes late in the book, because in a story about Black characters it makes sense out of context, but in the larger context it pulls together the themes of the book. ![]()
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