LO: She's a 17-year-old Chinese American girl. MARTÍNEZ: OK, so set the scene for us, if you would - 1950s San Francisco - height of the Red Scare. And they put me in touch with a couple of Chinese American queer women who lived in San Francisco in the 1950s and '60s. I did reach out to historians who work in the period. And my mother is - speaks English as a second language. LO: I'm very proud to report that this is the first book of mine that my mother has read. Lo talked with our co-host, A Martinez, about the book, parts of which are in Chinese - a detail which won over a special audience of one. MARTIN: It's the first time that a young adult book with an LGBT female lead character won the prestigious award. And my wife was in the corner, so she wasn't going to be on camera. MALINDA LO: I was at home, obviously, because it was on Zoom. Malinda Lo was stunned when she won a National Book Award for her novel "Last Night At The Telegraph Club."
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