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Stay True

Stay True

Hua Hsu

Random House LLC US

One of the The New York Times s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardNew York Times Bestseller Quietly wrenching To say that this book is about grief or coming-of-age doesn t quite do it justice This is a memoir that gathers power through accretion all those moments and gestures that constitute experience, the bits and pieces that coalesce into a life. The New York Times [A] luminous and tender-hearted story. . . Stay True is a nuanced and beautiful evocation of young adulthood in all its sloppy, exuberant glory. The Wall Street Journal An evolutionary step for Asian American literature. New York MagazineIn 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...

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