Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

She’s fascinated by the idea of rockets and space, and dreams of one day working alongside her aunt at the Jet Propulsion Lab.

Lily Hu is a high school senior who loves math, science, and reading Arthur C. Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a beautiful, sensitively told story of a young woman in 1950s San Francisco, discovering her sexuality, finding first love, and navigating her place in the world of Chinatown and beyond. With deportation looming over her father-despite his hard-won citizenship-Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.Īmerica in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?” 'Beautifully written historical fiction about giddy, queer first love' - Kirkus You may also be interested in.A story of love and duty set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the Red Scare. In bringing a fascinating chapter of history to vivid life, this novel illuminates a path to the future through a careful understanding of our past. 'A beautifully observed story about finding love and fighting for one's identity against tremendous odds. Lo has lovingly re-created 1950s San Francisco and made me feel as though I'd lived there, and her depiction of first love felt so real that I experienced it in long-since-forgotten corners of my own heart' - Bill Konigsberg 'Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club is an instant classic, the finest LGBTQIA+ romance I've read in ages. 'Oh, what a wonderful novel this is! For all who ever dared to want more, much more, from life - a beautifully sensitive love story, with telling historic detail' - Susan Elia MacNeal This book is for anyone who has ever loved-in any sense of the word' - Emily X.R. 'Exquisite and heart-shattering, Last Night at the Telegraph Club made me ache with wishing. A lovely, memorable novel about listening to the whispers of a wayward heart and claiming a place in the world' - Sarah Waters 'Lo's writing, restrained yet luscious, shimmers with the thrills of youthful desire.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo