Winner of the National Book Award A New York Times Bestseller The queer romance we ve been waiting for. --Ms. Magazine 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.