Last Night at the Telegraph Club

‘Lo‘s writing . . . shimmers with the thrills of youthful desire. A lovely, memorable novel‘ - Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch. ‘An instant classic, the finest LGBTQIA+ romance I‘ve read in ages.‘ - Bill Konigsberg, award-winning author of The Music of What Happens and The Bridge From the award winning author of Ash comes a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco‘s Chinatown during the 1950s. Seventeen-year-old 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. 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 . With deportation looming over her father - despite his hard-won citizenship - and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.