Stay True Book
Stay True 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.
Stay True by Hua Hsu Summary
Hua Hsu’s memoir “Stay True” is set against the backdrop of the 1990s, capturing the life of a young Taiwanese American navigating college life in California. The story primarily revolves around Hsu’s friendship with Ken, a Japanese American student, and how this relationship profoundly shapes his understanding of identity, culture, and loss.