Read the Rainbow Book Club

Name: Read the Rainbow Book Club
Start: 2025-10-18T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-18T11:00:00-05:00
Location: 101 Albion St, Edgerton, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53534

Schedule

Sat Oct 18 2025 at 10:00 am to 11:00 am

UTC-05:00

Location

101 Albion St, Edgerton, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53534 | Edgerton, WI

Join us for a brand-new Saturday morning book club especially for LGBTQ+ community members and their allies. We'll read books that have LGBTQ+ representation and/or explore LGBTQ+ themes. This book club is open to people aged 16 and up. Our first book will be Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo. Copies will be available at the circulation desk for checkout.
Book Abstract:
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly, everything seemed possible.
But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. 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.
Meticulously researched, emotionally stirring, and startlingly brave, Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a standout work of historical fiction that has taken the world by storm.
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature • A Michael L. Printz Honor Book • A We Need Diverse Books Walter Dean Myers Honor Book • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Century