Last night at the Telegraph Club
Call Number
- FICTION LO TEEN (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
New York : Dutton Books, 2021.
Physical Description
409 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
Ages: 15-18.
Summary
"'That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.' And the 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."--
Subjects
- Lesbians > Juvenile fiction.
- Lesbian bars > Juvenile fiction.
- Chinese American teenagers > Juvenile fiction.
- Identity (Psychology) in adolescence > Juvenile fiction.
- Families > Juvenile fiction.
- Race relations > Juvenile fiction.
- Cold War > Influence > Juvenile fiction.
- Young adult fiction.
- Lesbians > Fiction.
- Chinese Americans > Fiction.
- Cold War > Fiction.
- Communism > Fiction.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) > Juvenile fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.) > Juvenile fiction.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) > Fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.) > Fiction.
- California > History > 1950- > Fiction.