When she meets Kathleen it’s through their school work, and Kathleen is cautious about approaching Lily in any romantic way. She is pretty naïve about relationships, but then she has focused her energies to this point on science and being a good student.
Lily is a fairly typical teen of the era, especially one growing up in an insular culture and a protective family. My reactionI really liked this YA work of historical fiction that focuses on the Chinese-American experience during the McCarthy Red-Scare period. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily and her family.
American in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Digital audiobook performed by Emily Woo Zeller From the book jacket 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.
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