Winner of the National Book Award for Young Adult Literature
From the award-winning author of Ash comes a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s.
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.
Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonISBN: 9781529366587Number of pages: 416Weight: 292 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 30 mm
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'Lo's writing,restrained yet luscious,shimmers with the thrills of youthful desire. A lovely,memorable novel about listening to the whispers of a wayward heart and claiming a place in the world'- Sarah Waters
'Exquisite and heart-shattering,Last Night at the Telegraph Club made me ache with wishing. This book is for anyone who has ever loved-in any sense of the word'- Emily X.R. Pan
'Oh,what a wonderful novel this is! For all who ever dared to want more,much more,from life - a beautifully sensitive love story,with telling historic detail'- Susan Elia MacNeal
'Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club is an instant classic,the finest LGBTQIA+ romance I've read in ages. Lo has lovingly re-created 1950s San Francisco and made me feel as though I'd lived there,and her depiction of first love felt so real that I experienced it in long-since-forgotten corners of my own heart'- Bill Konigsberg
'A beautifully observed story about finding love and fighting for one's identity against tremendous odds. In bringing a fascinating chapter of history to vivid life,this novel illuminates a path to the future through a careful understanding of our past. It's vivid,emotional,and hopeful. I loved it'- Abdi Nazemian
'Beautifully written historical fiction about giddy,queer first love'- Kirkus
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