{"product_id":"last-night-at-the-telegraph-club-9781432888763","title":"Last Night at the Telegraph Club","description":"\u003cb\u003eProof of Malinda Lo's skill at creating darkly romantic tales of love in the face of danger.\u003ci\u003e--O: The Oprah Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe queer romance we've been waiting for.\"--\u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRestrained yet luscious.--Sarah Waters, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTipping the Velvet\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root--that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. 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. Suddenly everything seemed possible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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 Lily. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMalinda Lo is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of several young adult novels, including \u003ci\u003eA Line in the Dark, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e Best YA Book of 2017 and one of Vulture's 10 Best YA Books of 2017. Her novel \u003ci\u003eAsh, \u003c\/i\u003e a lesbian retelling of Cinderella, was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award, the Andre Norton Award for YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and was a \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book for Children and Teens. She has been a three-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Malinda's nonfiction has been published by the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003e NPR, the Huffington Post, The Toast, the\u003ci\u003e Horn Book, \u003c\/i\u003e and the anthologies \u003ci\u003eHere We Are, How I Resist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eScratch.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in Massachusetts with her wife.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Thorndike Striving Reader","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725630214418,"sku":"9781432888763","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8754f4d0-3123-4c7a-915f-5b9b59a87e4c.jpg?v=1734836902","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/last-night-at-the-telegraph-club-9781432888763","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}