Description: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, by the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu "This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come." --Rachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room 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. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes 'zines and haunts Bay Area record shop Book and Mortar Record Store Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner) -- Hua Hsu 16.15 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, by the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu "This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come." --Rachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room 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. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes 'zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken 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. Determined to hold on to all that was left of one of his closest friends--his memories--Hua turned to writing. 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. Author: Hua Hsu Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Published: 09/12/2023 Pages: 208 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.45lbs Size: 8.90h x 5.35w x 0.39d ISBN: 9780593315200 Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
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Label: Vintage
Artist: Hsu, Hua
Album: Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Vintage Books)
Book Title: Stay True : a Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Murder / General, Children's Studies, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Personal Memoirs, Student Life & Student Affairs, Popular Culture, Higher
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2023
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: True Crime, Social Science, Education, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 7.4 Oz
Author: Hua Hsu
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
