A graceful and artful meditation on the pain of loss and the consolations of memory.
A luminous meditation on friendship and loss that captures the texture of young adulthood with stunning precision. New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu transforms personal grief into something profound—a story about finding meaning through the people who shape us, even after they’re gone.
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From New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu comes a luminous meditation on friendship, loss, and the search for belonging in America. Stay True is the kind of memoir that lingers long after you’ve turned the final page—a story both achingly specific and deeply universal.
At eighteen, Hua Hsu thought he had Ken figured out. Ken, with his Dave Matthews albums and fraternity letters, seemed to embody everything Hua stood against. Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants who spent his days making ‘zines and haunting record shops, defined himself in opposition to the mainstream. Yet somehow, despite their differences—or perhaps because of them—they became inseparable friends, bonding over late-night conversations, coastal drives, and the particular joys and humiliations of college life.
Then, suddenly and senselessly, Ken was gone. Killed in a carjacking just three years after they met.
What Hsu has crafted in response to that loss is extraordinary. Stay True captures the texture of young friendship with stunning precision—the way two people from different worlds can find common ground, the way grief reshapes everything, the way we hold onto what matters through the stories we tell. This is a bracing, beautiful book about growing up, moving through the world, and discovering that the search for meaning often begins with remembering.
Perfect for readers who loved The Year of Magical Thinking or H is for Hawk—memoirs that transform personal loss into something profound and necessary.
A graceful and artful meditation on the pain of loss and the consolations of memory.
A beautiful, mournful meditation on youth, friendship, and grief.
A gorgeous, unsparing book about grief and friendship that will shatter your heart into a million pieces.
Hsu's book is an elegy to a friend, an excavation of his own younger self, and an examination of grief. But it's also a love letter to a time and place.
Stay True is a bracing memoir about grief, nostalgia, and the power of music and writing to create and maintain relationships across time.
A moving meditation on grief, friendship, and growing up.
A beautiful, heartbreaking memoir about the friendship between two young men and the grief that follows loss.
Hsu has written a gorgeous, unsparing book about grief and friendship.
An exquisite memoir about a friendship cut short by tragedy.
A gorgeous meditation on grief, memory, and what we owe the dead.
| Weight | 0.85 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.69 × 1.01 × 8.58 in |
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| Subject | American, Asian & Asian American, Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Ethnic Studies, Personal Memoirs, Social Science |
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