On the Rooftop - A Reese''s Book Club Pick

Dancing to the rhythm of Jazz Era San Francisco, On the Rooftop is a stunning story of ambition, success, and three sisters who long to pursue their own dreams

About the author

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her most recent novel, The Revisioners, won a 2020 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work and was a national bestseller as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, was long-listed for the National Book Award. She lives in Oakland with her family.

Summary

Dancing to the rhythm of Jazz Era San Francisco, On the Rooftop is a stunning story of ambition, success, and three sisters who long to pursue their own dreams

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780861546275
• ISBN: 978-0-86154-627-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction & related items, Historical fiction, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Fiction: general and literary, Fiction: narrative themes, FICTION / African American & Black / Women, Fiction and Related items, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary