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Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can\u2019t remember exactly when the feeling took root\u2014that 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.<\/em><\/p>\n But 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\u2014despite his hard-won citizenship\u2014Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.<\/em> – Dutton Books for Young Readers<\/p>\n Looking for some other books set in the 1950s or 1960s? Try any of the following.<\/p>\n As always, check each of our locations for displays with lots more titles to choose from!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome Readers! This month the Online Reading Challenge travels back in time to the 1950s & 1960s. Our Main title for May is Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo. Here\u2019s a quick summary from the publisher: Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can\u2019t remember exactly when the feeling took root\u2014that[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3371],"tags":[2288,1694,8134,5491,6914,6915,3395],"class_list":["post-51445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-online-book-challenge","tag-1950s","tag-1960s","tag-8134","tag-decades","tag-last-night-at-the-telegraph-club","tag-malinda-lo","tag-online-reading-challenge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-dnL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51988,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51445\/revisions\/51988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/last-night-at-the-telegraph-club.jpg?resize=266%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>This month the Online Reading Challenge travels back in time to the 1950s & 1960s. Our Main title for May is Last Night at the Telegraph Club<\/em><\/a><\/strong> by Malinda Lo. Here\u2019s a quick summary from the publisher:<\/p>\n\n