Last Night at the Telegraph Club

This is the story of 17-year old Lily Hu in 1950s San Francisco Chinatown and her slow and risky introduction into lesbianism. It's all embedded within real historical events, with so many references to things and places and events and people that actually existed (the Author's Note explains a lot of them - well-researched! and if you want to read up on them, there's even a bibliography list). I devoured this book with lots of joy. It's interesting and thrilling and capturing. Go read it!

It is a story where bad things happen to the queers, but it's not a tragic story. Things go on, people can leave, and find each other again.

I'm often easily bored by historical fiction (idk why!) but this worked very well for me.

Gay and beautiful all-around stem girlies at their best
CW: the pigs do more than squeal in this one.

Great writing, fascinating multi-layered story. Excited to read the companion novel. Great for YA LGBTQ collection dev. Fuck the book burning censors.