![]() If I tried to list all the praise Last Night at the Telegraph Club has garnered, we’d be here until next year’s National Book Awards, but I always can tell a book’s going to be good when it’s blurbed by Sarah Waters, high priestess of gay historical fiction. Lo’s win last night is a landmark achievement made even more significant by the fact that Last Night at the Telegraph Club tells the story of a queer Chinese girl in the 1950s, confronting homophobia, racism, and McCarthy-era fearmongering in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Kacen Callender’s acclaimed middle grade novel King and the Dragonflies - which featured a queer Black boy as a main character - won the award last year, and several others have been named as finalists. Last Night at the Telegraph Club is the first YA book with a queer woman as the protagonist to win a National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature. When Malinda Lo won a National Book Award for Young People’s Literature last night, I yelled. ![]() I’m always keeping an eye out for LGBTQ+ novels in the running for major literary awards, and last night’s National Book Awards felt like my gay nerd Super Bowl. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema. ![]()
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