Ruth, Esther et Chloe Jones répètent depuis leur plus tendre enfance sur le toit de leur maison, coachées par leur mère, Vivian, une infirmière qui consacre tout son temps libre à leur carrière musicale. Un soir, alors que les trois soeurs se produisent dans un club de jazz, un illustre manager propose de signer le trio. Mais rien ne se passera comme prévu...
Avec cette émouvante saga familiale, MWS nous plonge au coeur de la scène jazz du San Francisco des années 1950, à l'aube d'une campagne d'expropriation de la population noire.

A Reese''s Book Club Pick"An utterly original and brilliant story." -Reese WitherspoonA 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 FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. 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.Now Vivian has scored a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager, who promises to catapult The Salvations into the national spotlight. Vivian knows this is the big break she''s been praying for. 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.The neighborhood is changing, too: all around the Fillmore, white men in suits are approaching Black property owners with offers. 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. And Vivian, who has always maintained control, will have to confront the parts of her life that threaten to splinter: the community, The Salvations, and even her family.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). Lire la suite Fermer