Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in MemoirA deeply moving memoir about growing up in the 90s,written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend.'One of the best nonfiction books about friendship ever,right up there with Patti Smith's Just Kids'- The AtlanticWhen Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkeley college dorm room,he hates him. A frat boy with terrible taste in music,Ken seems exactly like everyone else. For Hua,who makes zines and haunts indie record shops,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.Capturing a coming-of-age cut short,and a portrait of a beautiful friendship,Stay True is an intimate memoir about growing up and moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.'Impossible to put down...profoundly moving'- The Guardian'A glorious,unforgettable book'- Patrick Radden Keefe,author of Say Nothing
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781035036370Number of pages: 208Weight: 171 gDimensions: 197 x 131 x 19 mm
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At once a coming-of-age memoir,a devastating elegy for a departed friend,and a mixtape of all the music and other shards of culture and experience that coalesce into an identity,Stay True is wildly original...A glorious,unforgettable bookImpossible to put down...profoundly moving...a work of intellect,honesty and loveA remarkably moving account of male affection and griefA remarkably moving account of male affection and grief...This beautiful book is a testament to the power of open-mindednessThis book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to comeQuietly wrenching...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 lifeA beautiful memoir that goes deep into the heart of friendshipsA luminous and tender-hearted story...Stay True is a nuanced and beautiful evocation of young adulthood in all its sloppy,exuberant glory(Hsu writes) with devastating emotional precision,questioning the possibility of meaning in tragedy and the value of the stories we tell while attempting to find it...an extraordinary,devotional act of friendshipRemarkable...an evocative coming-of-age story about the formation of identity,friendship,and griefA richly observed examination of grief,being an outsider and the healing power of artThis is writing at its best...one of those books that is the sum total of a writer's life in thinking,craft,and curiosity,made felt at last,so that when the sentences come,they come with a deliberate,patient,and precise forceI was softly heartbroken by Stay True...(A) once-in-a-lifetime bookNot since Ann Patchett wrote about her friend Lucy Grealy in Truth and Beauty has there been such an achingly tender book about a platonic friendshipFunny and wise...What a gift it is to remember the people you loved,and who loved you,while you were busy becoming yourselfStay True is about the beautiful,unpredictable alchemy of how friendship-particularly male friendship-forms in the first placeA moving portrait of a persona undone by tragedy
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