On the rooftop : a novel

Title On the rooftop : a novel
Names Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson.
Book Number DB111183
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Download Link Downloadable talking book.
Annotation "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." -- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Miles, Robin.
Local Subject Historical Fiction - HIF
Historical Fiction - 20th Century - HIT
Historical Fiction-20th Cent-American - HITA
Women's Issues - WOM
Music & Dance - MAD
Female Narrator - FN
Exclusion - Short Book - SH
LC Subject Gentrification - California - San Francisco - Fiction
Mother and child - Fiction
Neighborhoods - California - San Francisco - Fiction
Nineteen fifties - Fiction
Sisters - Fiction
San Francisco (Calif.) - Fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
Call Number 813.6 AFI
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2022 2022 9780063139978
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