Last Night at the Telegraph Club

The queer positive novel "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo won the National Book Award for Young Adult Literature in 2021.

It’s not safe for two girls to fall in love in the 1950’s Americas. Especially not in San Franciscos’s Chinatown. The Red-Scare paranoia infects the whole society and even Lilys fathers with a hard-won citizenship is in danger of deportation. But Lily and Kath can’t prevent their love and must risk evertyhing to let their love live.

Malinda Lo's gripping story of love between two girls in Americas conservative 1950’s in "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" is a charmering whirlwind of historical fiction and romance.