Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton is a New Orleans-born novelist who now lives in Oakland. Her third book, On the Rooftop, set amid the thriving 1950s jazz scene in San Francisco’s rapidly gentrifying Fillmore District, centers around an incredibly talented group of singing sisters and their fierce mother whose dream of stardom collides with the daughters’ ambitions for their own lives. A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick.