Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
Jan 2021 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
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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.
*This audiobook includes a PDF of the bibliography and acknowledgments from the book.
"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.
*This audiobook includes a PDF of the bibliography and acknowledgments from the book.
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Kendra H
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June 21, 2024
⚠️ WARNING: There are racial undertones for the time period and mention of a miscarriage⚠️ This is such an amazing journey for Lily Hu, on her path to self-discovery as a lesbian Chinese American teenager in 1950s Chinatown, California. Lily and her childhood best friend, Shirley, start to drift a part senior year as Shirley tries to set Lily up with childhood friend, Will, and Lily is finally realizing she isn't interested in boys the way all the other girls are. She finds a book in the back of a convenience store that has her questioning everything she knows to be "right" vs "wrong" along with her new friendship with Kath. She struggles with being the good Chinese girl her family knows and accepts and being true to herself. My overall ratings for enjoyment, romance, and spice are ⭐⭐⭐⭐/💖💖/1/2🌶️ It is a VERY slooooooooow burn and is extinguished almost immediately.
olivia gray
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October 18, 2022
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About the author
Malinda Lo is the New York Times bestselling author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, winner of the National Book Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, as well as Michael L. Printz and Walter Dean Myers honors. Her debut novel Ash, a Sapphic retelling of Cinderella, was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award, the Andre Norton Award for YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. Malinda’s short fiction and nonfiction has been published by The New York Times, NPR, Autostraddle, The Horn Book, and multiple anthologies. She lives in Massachusetts with her wife and their dog.
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