![]() ![]() ![]() Kath, it turns out, has been to the Telegraph Club, where Tommy performs, and can get Lily the fake ID she needs to go, too. ![]() It’s this photograph that, when she drops it near schoolmate Kath Miller, provides the thread that draws the two together. All she has to guide her is pulp novels she doesn’t dare purchase and reactions she doesn’t understand to photographs of Katharine Hepburn, women pilots, and a ‘male impersonator’ named Tommy Andrews. She has to recognize her uncomfortable nervous feeling as arousal before she can start to unpack the fact that she is experiencing it looking at women, and that other women who feel that way exist, too. Lily exists in a void of information about sexuality. ![]() The book does have a romance with an HFN, but the core of the story is Lily Hu’s growing self-knowledge of her sexuality, not her falling in love specifically with Kath Miller. The story is set in a richly depicted Chinese-American San Francisco of the 1930s through 1950s, including flashbacks to LIly’s parents and her aunt, whose career working as a calculator for rocketry inspires Lily to dream of a future in STEM herself. The winner of multiple awards, Malinda Lo’s Last Night at the Telegraph Club is the beautifully written narration of a young Chinese-American teen’s queer coming-of-age in 1954 California. ![]()
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