And when placed within the context of racial segregation and prejudice in midcentury America, the results are soul-shaking. Agent: Michael Carlisle, InkWell Management. In Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s showstopper of a third novel, On the Rooftop, this theme is explored with compassion, clear-eyed perception and been-around-the-block delivery. In Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s showstopper of a third novel, On the Rooftop, this theme is explored with compassion, clear-eyed perception and been-around-the-block delivery. Nevertheless, Sexton brings undeniable power to her depiction of dreams fragmented and deferred. The historical milieu is less sharply drawn, with celebrity cameos too often standing in for concrete details of time and place. In alternating viewpoints, Sexton depicts the nuances of familial relationships, including the sisters’ combination of loyalty and jealousy, as well as the complex and changeable nature of regret. Meanwhile, white developers begin disrupting Vivian’s Black Fillmore neighbors- many of whom, like Vivian, fled racial violence in the deep South-with eminent domain proceedings. On the Rooftop: A Novel (English Edition) eBook : Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson: Amazon. Just as Vivian’s dream seems within reach, though, her daughters yearn for independence, with Chloe eyeing a solo career and Esther wanting to join the civil rights movement. Now in their early 20s, the sisters’ talents have been relentlessly forged during countless rooftop rehearsals run by their mother, Vivian, a widow whose hopes for her daughters all center on their musical superstardom. On Fridays, they cheer the Salvations, hometown favorites made up of sisters Ruth, Esther, and Chloe Jones. It’s 1953, and people from all walks of life pack the Champagne Supper Club to see the latest jazz and R&B performers.
Sexton ( The Revisioners) broadly reimagines The Fiddler on the Roof in an affecting family story set in a rapidly changing historically Black San Francisco neighborhood.
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