Last night at the Telegraph Club
Title
:
Last night at the Telegraph Club
Personal Author EPSB
:
Malinda, Lo
Summary
:
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.
Year Published
:
2021
Physical Description
:
409 pages ; 22 cm
Awards
:
Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award, 2022.
Subject
:
Lesbian teenagers -- Fiction.
Chinese American teenagers -- Fiction.
Lesbian bars -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Cold War -- Influence -- Fiction.
Nineteen fifties -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
Lesbian fiction.
Summary
:
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.
ISBN
:
9780525555254
9780525555278
Publisher
:
New York : Dutton Books, 2021.
©2021
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| D.S. MacKenzie | F LO | Book | 30522000378924 | Historical Fiction |