For years their indomitable mother has rehearsed them on the rooftop of their home with the lights of the Nob Hill hotels sparkling invitingly in the distance, and now Vivian’s dreams of musical stardom for her daughters is about to come to fruition with a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager. It’s 1953, and the sounds of jazz are everywhere in the close-knit, historically Black neighborhood, especially at the Champagne Supper Club where Vivian’s girls-Ruth, Esther, and Chloe-sing every Friday night as The Salvations. Widowed Vivian, a refugee from the racial violence of segregated Louisiana, has made a good life in San Francisco’s Fillmore District, working as a nurse and raising her three daughters. Sexton’s touching third novel explores how far a mother can impose her dreams on daughters with budding ambitions of their own.
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