Charlene Carr has published eleven novels. Her first agented novel, Hold My Girl, was named
one of the Best Books of 2023 by CBC, shortlisted for multiple awards, and has been optioned
for adaptation to the screen. Carr lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with her husband and young daughters.
Her new novel is We Rip the World Apart.
At The Nerd Daily Carr tagged six books that explore themes of identity and belonging. One title on the list:
Black Cake by Charmaine WilkersonRead about the other entries on the list.
Black Cake is a multi-generational story that shifts between the past and the present as two siblings uncoverthe secrets of their late mother’s life. These revelations bring into question everything the brother and sister thought they knew about not only their mother’s identity, but their own, too.
Expansive and tender, Black Cake is an exploration of the intermixing of cultures and the ways in which the choices we make in an effort to survive and, maybe no less important, to belong, can ripple through the years.
Black Cake is among Laurie Elizabeth Flynn's five top books that wine & dine, Donna Hemans's eight books on love, loss, and betrayal in the Caribbean, and Sally Koslow's five novels about families far worse than yours.
--Marshal Zeringue
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