/Literary Arts
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Discusses ON THE ROOFTOP with Jasmine Guillory
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MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her most recent novel, The Revisioners, won a 2020 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work 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. She lives in Oakland with her family.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
A trio of sisters’ musical act is the talk of Jazz-era Fillmore. Set in gentrifying 1950s San Francisco, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s new novel “On the Rooftop” was inspired by “Fiddler on the Roof” and by images of people stranded on their roofs during Hurricane Katrina. Sexton, in conversation with Jasmine Guillory, is the author of “The Revisioners,” which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, as well as “A Kind of Freedom.”
Evan Karp
SF/Arts Curator
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