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Historical Fiction Book Club
Thu, Jun 18
|Birch Tree Books
Join us for this month's discussion with your Historical Fiction host, Hope!
Time & Location
Jun 18, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Birch Tree Books , 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly, everything seemed possible.
But 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.
Meticulously researched, emotionally stirring, and startlingly brave, Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a standout work of historical fiction that has taken the world by storm.