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Book Name: On the Rooftop
Authors: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Pages: 253
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publish Date: Sep 6, 2022
Language: English

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On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton vivian didn't mourn saint francisville louisiana on the contrary her memories kept watch against nostalgia still she would never be used to the fillmore's

weather she had anticipated mild and sunny she had expected it would never rain and it was true that it didn't dip below freezing but she hadn't prepared for the summer chill the fog and wind

she'd waltzed outside to work in a sleeveless dress her first june there dipped her toe onto the sidewalk then swung right back around for her front door she hadn't known a soul then who could have warned

her that had been 25 years earlier now she rounded the intersection of fillmore and post street with her cotton

car coat over her crisp white nursing uniform past the looming theater the austin a40s lining the sidewalks the street car perched at the stop sign awaiting negro men with long coats and top hats the bookstore let her know she was almost home and she waved hello to horus who ran

it then next door to miss edna who posted the winning numbers just before dark so the night ladies she ferreted out could anticipate their due mr gaines the butcher with the roaming eye miss fox with no teeth

who cleaned for them all in exchange for food the beauticians at gladys were distracted their gossip circling the parlor but if they'd seen vivian they'd have called out her name nearly inaudible beneath the dryer's home

it was the people she'd just passed who'd rebirthed her once her husband died vivian had begged ellis to move her from louisiana after a klansman smashed her bedroom windows with shotguns and dragged

her daddy to his death ellis had been her boyfriend then but as soon as they crossed the state line he'd married her given her three children then died and she grieved but her neighbors carried over stews and roasts and potatoes and string beans they bathed her children and greased

the little girl's legs more than that they sat with her when the pain was so deep she feared it would overcrowd her heart they sat still beside her if it hadn't been for them she wouldn't have made it and there were the others of course two of whom she waved to at the intersection of webster and ellis one whom

she didn't recognize in any case they were all middle-aged white men who worked for the city whose bellies stretched past their gray flannel suit pants they drive west from downtown every two weeks with their clipboards in their hands their hats over their eyes and they'd peer through half-drawn curtains and ask children to number their bathrooms then list the family members

who used them they pretended to be nice enough even nodding now as vivienne passed before they made note of the trash spilling out of the neighbor's garbage can there had been talk years ago that if mr gaines's meat had soured if miss edna's girls ventured out too early.

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