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Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Like New
Listed - 8 months ago
Views - 31
Wishes - 3
Ships From - Missouri
Est. Publication Date - Sep 2022
Seller Description
Vivian is a formidable matriarch, raising her three daughters to fulfil their potential as jazz singers. She may have compromised her own ambitions when she was forced to flee racist violence in her home state of Louisiana, but she dreams of a bigger life for their daughters. Talented, hardworking and driven by their uncompromising mother, Ruth Esther and Chloe find stardom as The Salvations. But somewhere between rehearsals on the rooftop and weekly gigs at the Champagne Supper Club, the girls become women - women with hopes and plans of their own. Vivian has always maintained impeccable control. Now, she must confront changes in The Salvations, in the San Francisco neighbourhood she has made her home, and even in her own family. The book is in like new condition with a small mark on the bottom.
Overview
On the Rooftop: A Novel
ISBN: 9780063139961
Publisher Description
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 San Fra...
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