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Laatste Nacht in de Telegraph Club Reeks

Deze serie speelt zich af in de jaren vijftig van de vorige eeuw, diep geworteld in het bruisende hart van Chinatown in San Francisco. Het volgt de ontluikende romance tussen twee jonge vrouwen terwijl ze navigeren door maatschappelijke vooroordelen en de intense politieke paranoia van de Rode Terreur. Geconfronteerd met de constante dreiging van deportatie en sociaal oordeel, riskeren de protagonisten alles om hun verboden liefde in leven te houden. Hun verhaal is een krachtige verkenning van identiteit, moed en de zoektocht naar liefde in een tijd van diepe onzekerheid.

A Scatter of Light
Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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  1. Last Night at the Telegraph Club

    • 416bladzijden
    • 15 uur lezen

    A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare.“That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?”Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.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.

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  2. A Scatter of Light

    Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage. And almost sixty years after the end of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Lo's new novel also offers a glimpse into Lily and Kath's lives since 1955. Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends—one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria expects boredom, but what she finds is Steph Nichols, her grandmother's gardener. Soon, Aria is second-guessing who she is and what she wants to be, and a summer that once seemed lost becomes unforgettable—for Aria, her family, and the working-class queer community Steph introduces her to. It's the kind of summer that changes a life forever.

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