![]() ![]() ![]() Something sparks between them-maybe just a new friendship, maybe a bond over being the only two girls left in their upper-level math class, maybe something more, something Lily doesn’t really understand or have the words for. One day in a class, Lily is put in a group with Kathleen Miller, a white girl she’s known for years but never really been friends with. She’s heading into her senior year alongside her lifelong best friend, Shirley, who is also Chinese American. It’s 1954 and Lily Hu lives in San Francisco’s Chinatown. This will be an illuminating read for modern teens who may not know much about what it was really like to be a queer teen in the 1950s. 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. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. ![]()
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