Black
Cake is
evocative—its title, story, and characters.
A
black cake doesn’t sound tasty, but Wilkerson’s layered family drama, Black
Cake, is delicious. The cake debuts on the first page, smeared on a wedding
dress in the hands of the police. Some weddings are doomed from the start, as
if the cake were bad. Black. Lightless. Cursed.
This legendary Jamaican
fruitcake shows up again and again as this multi-cultural, multi-generation
story unfolds moving between past and present, unraveling deception among
Wilkerson’s well-developed characters with intriguing connections.
Black
Cake is a fast-paced narrative replete with twists and turns. Can you
really savor the page when you’re turning them at lightning speed? Indeed!
**Featured on Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2022** **A Grazia Instagram 'IT' book to watch out for** **Soon to be a major Hulu series by Oprah Winfrey, Aaron Kaplan and Marissa Jo Cerar**
Everyone wants to discover what they're made of . . . The compelling and beautifully written story about the inheritance of the secrets, betrayal and memories that shape one family for generations
'A story as meaningful as it is delicious. At turns delightfully juicy and then stunningly wise, Black Cake is a winner' TAYLOR JENKINS REID
Sarah
Birnbach’s beautiful memoir, A Daughter’s Kaddish, is an inspiring story
of deep love and respect—of a daughter for her father.
I’m Christian and opened this book with a basic understanding of Judaism. As the story unfolded, I
learned the meaning behind unfamiliar Jewish traditions, like the Kaddish.
Birnbach writes of her challenging journey to push the boundaries of her own
grief and gender biases to tirelessly honor her father and their faith. She writes
from the heart with honesty and warmth, her prose is lyrical, and her
descriptions imaginative.
As
someone who lost her father prematurely, I’ve always wondered if my dad is
looking down at me, nodding, grimacing, smiling, laughing, scowling, cheering.
If such is the case with Sarah’s father, he’s beaming with pride. If you’ve
loved and lost someone, A Daughter’s Kaddish will warm your heart and
uplift your soul with cherished memories.
A woman breaks with Jewish tradition to honor her late father in this moving memoir of faith, grief, and transformation.
A Daughter's Kaddish recounts Sarah Birnbach's year-long odyssey to persevere through an unfamiliar world of Jewish prayer. To honor her beloved father, Sarah commits to reciting the Mourner's Kaddish twice a day in synagogue for eleven months-a Jewish mourning ritual that was historically reserved for sons-despite her father's initial request that she hire someone male to do so. A novice worshipper and single working mother, Sarah encountered many obstacles-including gender-based objections to her prayer practice, her own daughter's near-fatal car…
Bauermeister’s
No Two Persons is an artfully crafted novel of interconnected short
stories that was delightful to read. In the story, Alice is a debut author. She
releases her book on launch day and hopes for the best.
It
made me smile to reflect on the journey my own recently released book will
take, the many different people who will read it, and how the book might affect
them. Once a book is published, it belongs to the reader. And each reader will
absorb the pages differently. Different hands will hold it. Different eyes will
wander its text. And different hearts and minds might be touched or changed.
No
Two Persons
is a treat—for fiction readers, writers, and authors alike! And just like the
characters in No Two Persons, each of us brings our unique perspective
and will have a different experience reading it. No Two Persons piqued
my curiosity and captured my heart.
One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister’s No Two Persons is “a gloriously original celebration of fiction, and the ways it deepens our lives.”*
That was the beauty of books, wasn’t it? They took you places you didn’t know you needed to go…
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to…
The bombing of Pearl Harbor propels America into
WWII and two Japanese Americans into chaos. Ruby Ishimaru loses her liberty and
uproots from her Hawaii home to incarceration camps on the mainland. Koji
Matsuo strains under the menacing clouds of the Japanese war machine and atomic
bombing while concealing a dangerous secret—one that threatens his family’s
safety.
When destiny brings Ruby and Koji together in
California, their chemistry is magnetic, but wounds of trauma run deep and
threaten their love as another casualty of war.
Of White Ashes illuminates the remarkable lives
of ordinary people who endure seemingly unbearable hardship with dignity and
patience. Their experiences compel us to reflect on the resilience of humanity
and the risk of history repeating.
