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These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Maybe it’s because I’m a first-generation child of immigrants like the main character Lily, or maybe it’s because Malinda is an amazing writer, but there were moments in listening to the audiobook that made me shiver with recognition, and made me love Lily and Kath as they fell in love with each other… I’m so glad I read (listened to) this one.Īdd your review of “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” in comments!

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. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. 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.Īmerica in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. 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?”

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