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Stay True by Hua Hsu
PULITZER PRIZE WINER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER> - A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, by the>New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu>This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come. --Rachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling author of>The Flamethrowers and>The Mars Room In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken--with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity--is that he is>exactly>like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes 'zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken 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. Determined to hold on to all that was left of one of his closest friends--his memories--Hua turned to writing. Stay True is the book he's been working on ever since. A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.PULITZER PRIZE WINER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER> - A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, by the>New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu>
This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come. --Rachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling author of>The Flamethrowers and>The Mars Room In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken--with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity--is that he is>exactly>like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes 'zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken 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. Determined to hold on to all that was left of one of his closest friends--his memories--Hua turned to writing. Stay True is the book he's been working on ever since. A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780385547772 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385547773 |
| Title | Stay True |
| Author | Hua Hsu |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2022-09-27 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pulitzer Prize 2023, Winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award - Autobiography 2022, Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2023 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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