![]() 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?” It follows the story of Lily Hu, a seventeen year old high school senior in San Francisco who has mostly known Chinatown for her whole life, and her self-discovery of her identity as a lesbian when she falls in love with Kath, a fellow student and social outsider. Last Night at the Telegraph club takes its sweet time setting up characters and plot points, but without realizing it you’re too steeped to stop reading. This book is many things, but a quick read is not one of them. ![]() She couldn’t put into words why she had gathered these photos together, but she could feel it in her bones: a hot and restless urge to look - and, by looking, to know. ![]()
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