Malinda Lo

Acclaimed author of Ash Malinda Lo returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s. "That book. 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?" 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. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. 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.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Valle Fernandez

Are you like the girls in the book too? Because I think I am.

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Lily Hagen

She was light-headed and a little too warm, as of summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat. She didn’t mind at all.

Lindsay

In her imagination, Tommy had been like a matinee idol— sweet- faced and tender. In reality, Tommy was a woman made of flesh and blood, and that frightened Lily most of all.

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And yet, she couldn't say the word the book had used to describe those kinds of girls: lesbian. The word felt dangerous and also powerful as if uttering it would summon someone or something

They looked at each other, Kath with her shy half smile and Lily with her earnestess and there was such an unexpected feeling of openness, as if they had lifted off from the ground right then and there. 

"You're not listening to me!" Lily cried. "I'm like them"

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