Set in the era’s jazz scene, ‘On the Rooftop’ tells the story of a mother and her three musically inclined daughters.
Speaking on the phone from her home in the Oakland hills about her third novel, “On the Rooftop,” writer Margaret Wilkerson Sexton says the central idea came from her mother.
Sexton says her first novel, “A Kind of Freedom,” was “driven by a message that White women need to connect with Black women and recognize their similarities are greater than their differences.” Her second novel, “The Revisioners,” explored the story of marginalized women who are powerful healers yet suffer — and through strength survive while shouldering racist schisms and fragmented family relationships.
That doesn’t mean “Rooftop” is frivolous or without substantive weight. Vivian is an amplification of one facet true of Sexton’s mother. Developing believable Black women characters, or characters of any race or gender, she says is an organic process backed by principles. “They’ll be angry because we’re all human and get angry. They’ll be kind because we are all human and will be kind. I’ll always be writing about socially relevant themes, like gentrification in this case, but I don’t write to educate White people about Black people.”
“Once I had the setting, I saw her, to use a modern trope, as a stage mom. People want that; a nuanced archetype with a twist.”
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