Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Last Night at the Telegraph Club is by turns gut-wrenching, utterly compelling, and deeply tender. Malinda Lo turns her masterful talent toward an under-covered period of San Francisco history. 'A sweeping and romantic page-turner, the heart of this rich and ambitious historical novel is a love story that thrums with passion and self-discovery.'-Laura Ruby, two-time National Book Award Finalist and Printz Award-winning author of Bone GapĪn absolute masterpiece.-Randy Ribay, author of Patron Saints of Nothing, a National Book Award finalist I loved it.-Abdi Nazemian, author of Stonewall Honor Book Like a Love Story In bringing a fascinating chapter of history to vivid life, this novel illuminates a path to the future through a careful understanding of our past.

Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a beautifully observed story about finding love and fighting for one's identity against tremendous odds. Lo has lovingly re-created 1950s San Francisco and made me feel as though I'd lived there, and her depiction of first love felt so real that I experienced it in long-since-forgotten corners of my own heart.-Bill Konigsberg, award-winning author of The Music of What Happens and The Bridge Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club is an instant classic, the finest LGBTQIA+ romance I've read in ages. Oh, what a wonderful novel this is! For all who ever dared to want more, much more, from life-a beautifully sensitive love story, with telling historic detail.-Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times bestselling author of the Edgar-nominated Maggie Hope series It is the queer novel I wish I had read as a teenager, and feel lucky to have read now.-Marie Rutkoski, New York Times bestselling author of The Winner's Trilogy Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a triumph. Malinda Lo is my favorite kind of writer, one who can bring a scene to life with exquisite detail and nuance. Lily is my favorite kind of heroine: observant, loving, and startlingly brave. Pan, New York Times bestselling author of The Astonishing Color of After This book is for anyone who has ever loved-in any sense of the word.-Emily X.R.

A lovely, memorable novel about listening to the whispers of a wayward heart and claiming a place in the world.-Sarah Waters, international bestselling and award winning author of Tipping the Velvet and The Night WatchĮxquisite and heart-shattering, Last Night at the Telegraph Club made me ache with wishing. Lo's writing, restrained yet luscious, shimmers with the thrills of youthful desire. Lo beckons readers, sentence by restrained sentence, into this incandescent novel of queer possibility.-National Book Award Winner Citation

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo