Last night at the Telegraph Club / by Malinda Lo.

Book

Lo, Malinda, author.

New York : Dutton Books, 2021.

409 pages ; 22 cm

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.

Ages: 15-18. Dutton Books.

Grades: 9-12. Dutton Books.

Lesbians -- Juvenile fiction.

Chinese American teenagers -- Juvenile fiction.

Lesbian bars -- Juvenile fiction.

Identity (Psychology) in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction.

Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Juvenile fiction.

Family life -- Fiction.

Cold War -- Influence -- Juvenile fiction.

Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction.

San Francisco (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Historical fiction.

Lesbian fiction.

Romance fiction.

Young adult fiction.

Includes bibliographical references.

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Youth, 2021-2022

National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 2021

Stonewall Book Awards, Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Young Adult Literature Award, 2022

Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, Honor, 2022

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