Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Text from the back cover:

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root -- that desire to look, to move closer, to touch.  Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.  Suddenly everything seemed possible.  But 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.

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