
September '22 Pick
On the Rooftop
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
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...
From Our Book Lover-In-Chief
As a mom, I really related to this idea that you have to let go of what you want for your children and really understand what their dreams are and invest in that.
Fall reading starts now! The September 2022 @ReesesBookClub pick is 'On the Rooftop' by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. @mwilkers13 Set in the 1950's in San Francisco, this book centers around an incredibly talented group of singing sisters and their fierce mom, Vivian, who has big dreams of them becoming famous. An utterly original and brilliant story about learning how to mother children who have very different dreams and how to encourage them to reach for the stars. Follow along with @reesesbookclub as we chat about this wonderful novel. Happy reading, y’all!


FROM THE AUTHOR
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton born and raised in New Orleans, studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her most recent novel, The Revisioners, won a 2020 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work and a George Garrett New Writing Award; was a California and Northern California Book Award finalist, a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award Finalist and a Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing finalist; was nominated for the 2020 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize; 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 and the Northern California Book Award, won the Crook's Corner Book Prize, and was the recipient of the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Zyzzyva, The Paris Review; O, The Oprah Magazine; The New York Times Book Review; and other publications. She lives in Oakland with her family.
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