Before becoming a full-time novelist, Lo worked as an editorial assistant and entertainment reporter, and was awarded the 2006 Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Journalism by the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (Lo, n.d.). Lo is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds master’s degrees from Harvard and Stanford Universities (Lo, n.d.). Morris YA Debut Award, the Andre Norton Award for YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the Lambda Literary Award for Children’s/Young Adult (Lo, n.d.). In the age of Red-Scare paranoia, it is not safe for two girls to fall in love.Īuthor Background: Malinda Lo is the author of several bestselling and critically acclaimed YA books, including historical novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club (2021), and Lo’s debut novel, Ash (2019), a lesbian retelling of Cinderella, which was a finalist for the William C. And when Lily meets Kath and the two begin making secret nighttime visits to The Telegraph Club, a lesbian bar in nearby North Beach, the risks of being who she is become more real.

But Lily is beginning to chafe against the restrictions of being a “good Chinese daughter” when her heart is telling her that she craves something different…something that she glimpses for the first time on the cover of a pulp novel called Strange Season about two women who fall in love. Plot Summary: Set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the 1950s, Last Night at the Telegraph Club follows 17-year-old Lily Hu, a teen who loves outer space (she dreams of working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory just like her Aunt Judy) and her family and community. Reading Level/Interest Level: Grade 9-12 (Booklist). Title: Last Night at the Telegraph Club.

The last night at the telegraph club