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Topic: Last Night at the Telegraph Club
If I normally don’t like YA, am I likely to dislike this one? I would usually only read older YA (e.g. Jules Verne), if anything, but I did like the Alex & Eliza trilogy and A Wrinkle in Time
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Sarah Brown I am not a huge fan of YA (I did not like Adaptation by the same author lol) but I really enjoyed this one. It's a really thoughtful character exploration and the romance is kind of secondary.
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Bepis No. It’s not like what you might typically find in YA, and certainly not stylistically written like most YA is. Really, the only thing it has in common with a lot of YA is that the main character and love interest are teenagers, though both are about to graduate high school. I highly recommend it for its prose, its commentary on what it means to be a lesbian and Chinese, and its historical value in terms of 1950s America experienced by a queer Chinese-American girl and her family.
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lydia spano It’s very mature for a YA. Very emotional and serious
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