Stay True is a 2022 memoir by Hua Hsu, published by Anchor Books and Doubleday, both imprints of Penguin Random House. The memoir depicts Hsu's unlikely relationship with a college friend named Ken, a friendship that was unexpectedly and tragically cut short when Ken was killed in a carjacking in 1998.

Sep 27, 2022 · In Stay True, Hua Hsu writes about his close bond with his Japanese American college friend Ken, as well as Ken’s untimely, awful murder in a carjacking. Though most of the memoir revolves around Hsu’s memories of his friendship with Ken, it also describes what Hsu learns when he goes to therapy after Ken’s death and begins to let go of ...

Sep 25, 2022 · In his quietly wrenching memoir, “Stay True,” the New Yorker writer Hua Hsu recalls starting out at Berkeley in the mid-1990s as a watchful teenager who had cultivated a cramped sensibility.

Sep 27, 2022 · 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.

Stay True is a 2022 coming-of-age memoir by Hua Hsu, an American author and academic born to Taiwanese immigrants. Hsu has published extensively on issues of diversity, multiculturalism, immigration, and popular culture in the United States, with pieces appearing in The New Yorker, Slate, The Atlantic, The Wire, and

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.

May 20, 2023 · Hua Hsu was awarded the Pulitzer Prize last week for his memoir "Stay True." We spoke with the author when his book came out in September.

Sep 27, 2022 · In prose that shimmers, Hua Hsu gives tender elegy to a pivotal friend abruptly lost, reminding us of the impacts of unlikely connections and the persistent ripple of memory. Crisp and spellbinding, Stay True is a coming of age memoir that lingers.

Stay True is both a memoir of writer and scholar Hua Hsu's life as a young Asian-American man and a memorial for his friend Ken who was murdered while both he and Hsu were in college. Hsu begins the books by documenting his parents’ experience of immigrating to the United States as students from Taiwan in the 1960s and 1970s.