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It entwines queer history, immigration pressure, and political fear with romance.
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2021 selection · Young readers
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
A Chinese American teenager discovers lesbian community and first love in 1950s San Francisco.
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You enjoy richly researched historical coming-of-age fiction.
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queer historyChinese American lifeMcCarthyismfirst love
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