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LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB
From the acclaimed author of Ash, a sweeping story of love and duty set in a lush and turbulent San Francisco.
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu is a good a Chinese girl. She may not be the type to put her name in for the Miss Chinatown Pageant, but she's still the eldest child of proud and successful parents and an ambitious student with a bright future, maybe even in job like her aunt's at the Jet Propulsion Lab. She's what a good Chinese girl looks like.
But San Francisco in 1954 is a place where appearances are carefully cultivated, especially in Chinatown. White people come to Chinatown to gawk at exotic foreigners or for late-night lo mein after an evening at one of the notorious nightclubs on Broadway. Chinatown is careful to show visitors the imaginary Far East they want to see, especially if the alternative is that they start looking for communists. But even among Chinatown residents, there are truths that the residents would rather not see, masks even family pretends not to notice - at least until those masks have slipped badly.
And for Lily Hu, "good Chinese girl" is beginning to feel like a mask. Or worse, like a trap - one that finally sprung the night she set foot in the Telegraph Club with Kathleen Miller. She's known Kath since they were first in math together in junior high. Now they're the last two senior girls in advanced math, and Lily can't deny that what she feels with Kath is about much more than calculus.
Balancing her family's expectations with her desire for Kath would never be easy under any circumstances, but with possible deportation suddenly looming over her father, despite his hard-won citizenship, Lily's awakening to her true self seems doomed to be short-lived.
In Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo conjures a vivid and moving portrait of a girl struggling to know herself in a world that only wants to see her one way or not at all.
Malinda Lo is the critically acclaimed author of ASH, HUNTRESS, ADAPTATION, INHERITANCE, A LINE IN THE DARK, and LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB. ASH, a lesbian 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 was a Kirkus Best Book for Children and Teens. She has been a three-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Malinda's nonfiction has been published by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Huffington Post, The Toast, The Horn Book, and AfterEllen. She lives with her partner in Massachusetts.
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Published 2021-01-19 by Dutton |