![]() ![]() ![]() "The queer romance we’ve been waiting for.”-Ms. Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers 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. Suddenly everything seemed possible.īut America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. ![]() It’s a VIP, he joked with one mum, pointing at her daughter. 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. King Charles III stands under the Old Sycamore in the walled gardens at Dumfries House Credit: Andrew Milligan/PA. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root-that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. “Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like to have nothing keeping you attached to the ground?” NPR's A Martinez speaks with author Malinda Lo about winning the National Book Award for her novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club, and unconventional characters in storytelling. ![]()
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