Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Book Award and the Stonewall Book Award

Some stories grab hold of you and don’t let go. This is one of them.

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t quite remember when the feeling took root—that quiet desire to look, to move closer, to touch. But she knows it bloomed the night she and Kathleen Miller walked beneath the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly, everything seemed possible.

But this is San Francisco in 1954, and America isn’t a safe place for two girls to fall in love—least of all in Chinatown, where Red-Scare paranoia hangs heavy and the threat of deportation looms over Lily’s father, despite his hard-won citizenship. To let their love see the light of day, Lily and Kath must risk everything.

Meticulously researched and emotionally stirring, this is historical fiction at its most tender and brave. As Ms. Magazine put it: “Lush, ambitious and layered, Malinda Lo’s sweeping historical novel is the queer romance we’ve been waiting for.”

The accolades speak for themselves:

• Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
• A Michael L. Printz Honor Book
• A We Need Diverse Books Walter Dean Myers Honor Book
• A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
• A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Century

Pull up a chair by the window, listen to the gulls outside, and let yourself linger in Lily’s world. This is the kind of book you’ll want to press into a friend’s hands the moment you finish it.

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