Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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.

Comment:

An LGBTQIA+ romance set in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1950s during the Red Scare… Beautifully written historical fiction about giddy, queer first love. (Source: Kirkus)

Edited by: Dublin City University

Author(s): Ho, Melinda

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books

City: London

Year: 2021

Pages: 416

ISBN: 9780525555278

Age Range: 15 - 18

Language: EN

Original Language: EN

Keywords: Empowerment, Ethnicity, Female homosexuality, Love

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