![]() 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. The book rack alcove was normally deserted, but even so, Lily spun the rack self-consciously, retreating behind it so that she was hidden from view. Suddenly everything seemed possible.īut America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. ![]() Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root-that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. "Restrained yet luscious."-Sarah Waters, bestselling author of Tipping the Velvet "The queer romance we’ve been waiting for.”- Ms. 2021 National Book Award Winner Acclaimed author of Ash, Malinda Lo, returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of love and duty. Parents need to know that Malinda Lo's Last Night at The Telegraph Club, won the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, It's is a gentle and altogether captivating queer love story set in 1950s San Francisco. "Proof of Malinda Lo's skill at creating darkly romantic tales of love in the face of danger. ![]() *Please leave personalization requests in the order comments.* ![]()
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