Literary Fiction
On the Rooftop
2022·304 pages
A heartfelt family saga of a mother and her singing daughters navigating dreams and gentrification in 1950s San Francisco.
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A heartfelt family saga of a mother and her singing daughters navigating dreams and gentrification in 1950s San Francisco.
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A deeply felt, big hearted exploration of family, sisterhood and gentrification, this is the kind of expansive, lush novel that envelops with charm while provoking with its fierce intelligence.” - Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie · "Richly observed and beautifully written, On the Rooftop weaves the lives of its characters together into a story bursting with music and feeling. Margaret Wilkerson Sexton writes with power and nuance about matters of the spirit and the flesh
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Faith referenced as a sustaining family and community element
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Gentrification, racial displacement, and societal adaptation as recurring themes
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