KQED Live and San Francisco's Litquake literary festival co-host an evening with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, the bestselling author of The Revisioners and A Kind of Freedom.
She joins Forum host Mina Kim to discuss her new novel On the Rooftop about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her daughters collides with their own ambition--set against the backdrop of San Francisco's gentrifying Fillmore neighborhood in the 1950s.
Featuring live songs from the era by San Francisco legendary jazz and blues vocalist Kim Nalley.
In Person: $18.
Presented by KQED Live
The Commons, KQED Headquarters
2601 Mariposa Street
San Francisco,
CA
94110