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As excited as I was to read this book, I was equally disappointed once I read it. And I really love books focusing on mother-daughter relationships. I love books about music or music groups.

I was very excited to read this book initially. Warm, gripping, and wise, with echoes of Fiddler on the Roof, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s latest novel is a moving family portrait from “a writer of uncommon nerve and talent” ( New York Times Book Review ). And Vivian, who has always maintained control, will have to confront the parts of her life that threaten to the community, The Salvations, and even her family. One sister finds herself called to fight back, one falls into the comfort of an old relationship, another yearns to make her own voice heard. The neighborhood is changing, all around the Fillmore, white men in suits are approaching Black property owners with offers. But sometime between the hours of rehearsal on their rooftop and the weekly gigs at the Champagne Supper Club, the girls have become women, women with dreams that their mother cannot imagine. Vivian knows this is the big break she’s been praying for. Now Vivian has scored a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager, who promises to catapult The Salvations into the national spotlight. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they’ve become a bona fide girl group whose shows are the talk of the Jazz-era Fillmore. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak.

As Vivian’s hold on her family begins to weaken, she must confront changes in The Salvations, in the San Francisco neighbourhood she has made her home, and even in her own family.A Reese’s Book Club Pick “An utterly original and brilliant story.” –Reese Witherspoon 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 Francisco At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. She can see a different future for her girls, one that is a far cry from her childhood in racially segregated Louisiana.īut somewhere between the grind of endless rehearsals on the rooftop and the glamour of weekly gigs at the Champagne Supper Club, the girls grow up and start to imagine a life beyond their mother's reach. When the girls receive a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a renowned talent manager, Vivian knows this is the big break she has been praying for. Driven to success by their formidably ambitious mother, Vivian, they’re soon the hottest jazz band in San Francisco.

Ruth, Esther and Chloe have been singing in harmony since before they could speak. Longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize 'An utterly original and brilliant story' Reese Witherspoon

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