![]() This book is for anyone who has ever loved-in any sense of the word.-Emily X.R. A lovely, memorable novel about listening to the whispers of a wayward heart and claiming a place in the world.-Sarah Waters, international bestselling and award winning author of Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch Exquisite and heart-shattering, Last Night at the Telegraph Club made me ache with wishing. Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for LiteratureĪ We Need Diverse Books Walter Dean Myers Honor BookĪ National Bestseller Lo beckons readers, sentence by restrained sentence, into this incandescent novel of queer possibility.-National Book Award Winner Citation Lo's writing, restrained yet luscious, shimmers with the thrills of youthful desire. 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. But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. 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. ![]() ![]() Magazine Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root-that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. ![]() ![]() Winner of Asian/Pacific American Award for LiteratureĪ We Need Diverse Books Walter Dean Myers Honor Book The queer romance we've been waiting for."- Ms. Book Synopsis Winner of the National Book Award ![]()
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