Last Night At the Telegraph Club – Malindo Lo

This book made me miss my early days in San Francisco going downtown to clubs with my lesbian roommate or running through the Presidio to Cliff House. Though I knew almost no one and hated my job, my 6 months living in the city were wonderful. Anyway. The book. Set in Chinatown in 1954, we …

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford

My friend’s mom was in a Japanese Internment Camp growing up, and I’m ashamed to say I knew nothing about them until I met her in my late 20s. This beautiful novel gives us a character who is trying to grow with the world, to love where his heart directs, but who is up against …