Full of yearning, ponderances about art and what it means to be an artist, and self-revelation,A Scatter ofLighthas a simmering intensity that makes it hard to put down.”NPR

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Last Night at the Telegraph Clubauthor Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful queer coming-of-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage.

Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Marthas Vineyard with her best friendsone last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Arias parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria expects boredom, but what she finds is Steph Nichols, her grandmothers gardener. Soon, Aria is second-guessing who she is and what she wants to be, and a summer that once seemed lost becomes unforgettablefor Aria, her family, and the working-class queer community Steph introduces her to. Its the kind of summer that changes a life forever.

And almost sixty years after the end ofLast Night at the Telegraph Club,A Scatter of Lightalso offers a glimpse into Lily and Kaths lives since 1955.