But we’re never what our parents expected. “She’s having a hard time right now because you’re not what she expected.
This storytelling format actually really reminded me of Sabaa Tahir’s All My Rage, which I just reviewed and loved just as much. I personally loved and related to many parts of this experience that Lo represented throughout the story, and found the addition of Lily’s mother’s perspective especially interesting in adding an additional depth of understanding to the immigrant experience. At this point, there are tons of stories out there about coming out, and being queer in America, but not very many by and about Asian Americans - especially those about queer Asian Americans in a non-contemporary setting. The main aspect of this book that attracted me was that it was written and about an Asian American. But it also regularly reminded her of how it saw people like her.” Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club the asian american experience America had given her so much in the four years since she arrived. And now, unfortunately, she couldn’t leave. But first, she had met Francis, and then the communists had taken over. She had come to America for an education and had intended to return home. “Sometimes Judy felt a deep and burning anger at her adoptive country and she never knew what to do about it. 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. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. Seventeen-year-old Lily 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.Īmerica in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown.
It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?” A story of love and duty set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the Red Scare.
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