Stay true : a memoir
Hsu, Hua, 1977-2023
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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, haunts indie record shops and liked Nirvana long before they hit the Top 40, 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.
Stay true : a memoir / Hua Hsu.
London : Picador, 2023.London : Picador, 2023.
196 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 2022.
9781035036370 (pbk)
920 HSU
English
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