on the rooftop margaret wilkerson sexton

One sister finds herself called to fight back, one falls into the comfort of an old relationship, another yearns to make her own voice heard. The neighborhood is changing, too: all around the Fillmore, white men in suits are approaching Black property owners with offers. But sometime between the hours of rehearsal on their rooftop and the weekly gigs at the Champagne Supper Club, the girls have become women, women with dreams that their mother cannot imagine. Vivian knows this is the big break she’s been praying for. Now Vivian has scored a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager, who promises to catapult The Salvations into the national spotlight. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they’ve become a bona fide girl group whose shows are the talk of the Jazz-era Fillmore. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. DescriptionĪ stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters’ ambitions for their own lives-set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoĪt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Mask wearing will be required at the event. Order your copy of ON THE ROOFTOP at or in audiobook from Libro.fm at. This event will be in person at Montclair Presbyterian Church at 5701 Thornhill Drive, Oakland, CA.

She lives in Oakland with her family.Please join us on Friday, September 9, 2022 at 7:00 PM Pacific Time for an IN PERSON author discussion of ON THE ROOFTOP with author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton in conversation with Jasmine Guillory. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Zyzzyva, The Paris Review O, The Oprah Magazine The New York Times Book Review and other publications. Her debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, was long-listed for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, won the Crook's Corner Book Prize, and was the recipient of the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.

Her prior novel The Revisioners, won a 2020 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work and a George Garrett New Writing Award was a California and Northern California Book Award finalist, a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award Finalist and a Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing finalist was nominated for the 2020 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize and was a national bestseller as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her most recent novel On the Rooftop was a Reese Witherspoon “Reese’s Book Club” pick for September 2022. MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON, born and raised in New Orleans, studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley.

On the rooftop margaret wilkerson sexton