Join our Historical Fiction Book Club where we'll meet in-person every other month on the last Monday from 6:30-7:30PM in the Library's Classroom. This book group will focus on reading Historical fiction titles. If you have any questions you can email sjacobie@noblenet.org

This month we will be discussing Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo . You can find copies online through our NOBLE catalog Regular Print, or E-book and E-Audio through Overdrive. 

About the book:

Malindo Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the Red Scare.

 “That book. 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?”

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. 

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.