Strange Times, that was the title of this book. It spoke of two women who fall in love with each other. And then Lily asked the question that had taken root inside her, one that even now unfurled its leaves and demanded to see the sun. “Have you ever heard anything like this before?”
The seventeen-year-old Lily Hu does not exactly remember when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom when she and Kathleen Miller passed under the neon sign of a gay bar called Telegraf Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially in the historic Chinatown of San Francisco.
McCarthyism and the paranoia of the Red Scare threaten everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With the fear of deportation looming over her father, despite the citizenship he worked so hard to obtain, Lily and Kath risk everything for their love to see the light of day.
In every chapter, the timeline is given with the key events of the era and the personal lives of the protagonists.
