However, what will happen to both with their disapproving families isn't clear. Bittersweet Ending: Lily reunites with Kath and it's indicated the two may rekindle their relationship.Beauty Contest: Lily’s best friend Shirley enters the Miss Chinatown contest and recruits Lily to help her prepare for the contest.All Gays Are Pedophiles: After the police raid on the Telegraph Club, a newspaper prints an article claiming teenage girls were 'recruited' by the 'sex deviates' there because some attendees had been teenagers like Lily and Kath, heavily reflecting this belief (unusually though about lesbians instead of gay men).Affectionate Nickname: Kath for Kathleen, which is what most of her friends and her girlfriend all call her.The ‘50s we see in the novel is an example of the historical ‘50s. The '50s: The novel takes place between 1950-1956.Last Night at the Telegraph Club contains examples of: She finds herself doing something she couldn't have imagined before she finds herself falling in love with Kath. As the girls grow closer, Lily starts growing into who she really is she starts finding her voice when it comes to her friend group, she starts sneaking out late at night to visit The Telegraph Club with Kath. Kath and Lily find they have common than just the one class, Kath dreams of being a pilot while Lily dreams of space exploration, and they both have a common interest in The Telegraph Club. Then Lily starts to spend more time with Kathleen Miller, a girl she has been attending school with but has never really been more than acquaintances with before this year. Lily is a loyal yet quiet friend, an excellent student who is taking higher-level math classes than most of the girls in her grade, and overall the perfect Chinese daughter that her parents want her to be.

It focuses on seventeen-year-old Lily Hu as she navigates her relationships with her peers that she's known for most of her life, her dreams of being a computer for the space program, the societal expectations that have been thrust upon her, and her burgeoning relationship with Kathleen Miller, a girl whom she has class with and starts to grow closer to. The story takes place in 1950's Chinatown, California and is told in third-person perspective.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a 2021 young adult historical fiction novel by bestselling author Malinda Lo.

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