PULITZERPRIZEWINNER-NEWYORKTIMESBESTSELLER-Agrippingmemoironfriendship,grief,thesearchforself,andthesolacethatcanbefoundthroughart,bytheNewYorkerstaffwriterHuaHsu“ThisbookisexquisiteandexcruciatingandIwillbethinkingaboutitforyearsandyearstocome.“--RachelKushner,NewYorkTimesbestsellingauthorofTheFlamethrowersandTheMarsRoomIntheeyesofeighteen-year-oldHuaHsu,theproblemwithKen--withhispassionforDaveMatthews,Abercrombie&Fitch,andhisfraternity--isthatheisexactlylikeeveryoneelse.Ken,whoseJapaneseAmericanfamilyhasbeenintheUnitedStatesforgenerations,ismainstream;forHua,thesonofTaiwaneseimmigrants,whomakes’zinesandhauntsBayArearecordshops,Kenrepresentsallthathedefineshimselfinoppositionto.TheonlythingHuaandKenhaveincommonisthat,howevertheyengagewithit,Americanculturedoesn’tseemtohaveaplaceforeitherofthem.Butdespitehisfirstimpressions,HuaandKenbecomefriends,afriendshipbuiltonlate-nightconversationsovercigarettes,longdrivesalongtheCaliforniacoast,andthesuccessesandhumiliationsofeverydaycollegelife.Andthenviolently,senselessly,Kenisgone,killedinacarjacking,noteventhreeyearsafterthedaytheyfirstmeet.Determinedtoholdontoallthatwasleftofoneofhisclosestfriends--hismemories--Huaturnedtowriting.StayTrueisthebookhe’sbeenworkingoneversince.Acoming-of-agestorythatdetailsboththeordinaryandextraordinary,StayTrueisabracingmemoiraboutgrowingup,andaboutmovingthroughtheworldinsearchofmeaningandbelonging.
