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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Marissa Jo Cerar
Marissa Jo Cerar is known for adapting Black Cake, the book by Charmaine Wilkerson published in 2014, for television.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the TV series is better.
Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson, 2022
TV series vs book
Marissa Jo Cerar, 2023-
In the late 1960s, Covey, a runaway bride, vanishes into the waves off the Jamaican coast, leaving behind a mystery of whether she drowned or fled after her husband’s murder. Fifty years later in California, Eleanor Bennett, a widowed woman in her 60s, succumbs to cancer. In her absence, her two distant children discover a flash drive containing unheard stories of her voyage from the Caribbean to America.