Black Cake | A Hybrid Book Discussion

• Join your friends and meet new ones as we continue our eighth season of CDGA Queer Lit Book Club and discuss A Reader Recommendation- Charmaine Wilkerson's Black Cake. *This hybrid event will take place in person at Wood Library in Canandaigua and online via Zoom.

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OVERVIEW
* NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
* Now a HULU streaming series
* Read with Jenna book club pick as featured on TODAY

• "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."

WE ♥ LIBRARIES

• Our event title is available to borrow through the OWWL, Monroe and New York Public Library systems.

WE ♥ INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES

• Noire Reading Room is Rochester's online/pop-up Black Feminist Bookstore, featuring Black, Queer, and Radical texts. Support Noire Reading Room when you purchase this event's selection on their partner page with Bookshop.
• Archivist Books is a Black, Queer-owned independent bookstore based in Rochester, NY. Support Archivist Books when you purchase this event's selection on their partner page with Bookshop.
• Ampersand Books is the Neighborhood of the Arts' independent bookstore owned and operated by Writers & Books, Rochester’s leading nonprofit literary arts center.

CREDITS

• Black cake: A novel. (n.d.). Barnes & Noble. Retrieved January 15, 2026, from https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-cake-charmaine-wilkerson/1146433822?ean=9780593358351