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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson.     Subjects     Mother and child -- Fiction.     Women, Black -- Fiction.     Families, Black -- Fiction.     Nineteen fifties -- Fiction.     Sisters -- Fiction.     Coming of age -- Fiction.     Neighborhoods, Black -- Fiction.     Gentrification -- Fiction.     San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson.       by title:      On the rooftop : a n...       by call number:      LP FICTION SEX     Search the Web     Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson.     Mother and child -- Fiction.     Women, Black -- Fiction.     Families, Black -- Fiction.     Nineteen fifties -- Fiction.     Sisters -- Fiction.     Coming of age -- Fiction.     Neighborhoods, Black -- Fiction.     Gentrification -- Fiction.     San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

On the rooftop : a novel / Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. by Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson. Harper Large Print, 2022. Call #: LP FICTION SEX Subjects Mother and child -- Fiction.   Women, Black -- Fiction.   Families, Black -- Fiction.   Nineteen fifties -- Fiction.   Sisters -- Fiction.   Coming of age -- Fiction.   Neighborhoods, Black -- Fiction.   Gentrification -- Fiction.   San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780063267534 (large print pbk.) Description:  433 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Notes:  "Reese's Book Club"--Cover. Summary:  "A 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 Francisco. At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. 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. Now Vivian has scored a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager, who promises to catapult The Salvations into the national spotlight. Vivian knows this is the big break she’s been praying for. 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. The neighborhood is changing, too: all around the Fillmore, white men in suits are approaching Black property owners with offers. 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. And Vivian, who has always maintained control, will have to confront the parts of her life that threaten to splinter: the community, The Salvations, and even her family."--Publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Women's fiction. Literary fiction. Black fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Large Print Fiction LP FICTION SEX Adult books Checked out Jul 06, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Large Print Fiction LP FICTION SEX Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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