PRE-ORDER: Stay True by Hua Hsu
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When Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkeley dorm room, he hates him. A frat boy with terrible taste in music, Ken seems exactly like everyone else. For Hua, who makes zines and haunts indie record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to – the mainstream. The only thing Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, and Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the US for generations, have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn’t seem to have a place for either of them.
But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become friends, a friendship built on late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking, not even three years after the day they first meet.
Capturing a coming-of-age cut short, and a portrait of a beautiful friendship, Stay True is a deeply moving and intimate memoir about growing up and moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.
REVIEWS
"Quietly wrenching . . . This is a memoir that gathers power through accretion ― all those moments and gestures that constitute experience, the bits and pieces that coalesce into a life." ― The New York Times
"A beautiful memoir that goes deep into the heart of friendships." ― The Financial Times
"A luminous and tender-hearted story. . . Stay True is a nuanced and beautiful evocation of young adulthood in all its sloppy, exuberant glory." ― The Wall Street Journal
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 978-1035036370
Pages: 208
But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become friends, a friendship built on late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking, not even three years after the day they first meet.
Capturing a coming-of-age cut short, and a portrait of a beautiful friendship, Stay True is a deeply moving and intimate memoir about growing up and moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.
REVIEWS
"Quietly wrenching . . . This is a memoir that gathers power through accretion ― all those moments and gestures that constitute experience, the bits and pieces that coalesce into a life." ― The New York Times
"A beautiful memoir that goes deep into the heart of friendships." ― The Financial Times
"A luminous and tender-hearted story. . . Stay True is a nuanced and beautiful evocation of young adulthood in all its sloppy, exuberant glory." ― The Wall Street Journal
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 978-1035036370
Pages: 208