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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Signed
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- Yes
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780385547772
- Book Title
- Stay True : a Memoir
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Education, Social Science
- Topic
- Murder / General, Children's Studies, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Personal Memoirs, Student Life & Student Affairs, Popular Culture, Higher
- Item Width
- 5.7 in
- Item Weight
- 13.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
About this product
Product Information
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385547773
ISBN-13
9780385547772
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17057244482
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stay True : a Memoir
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Children's Studies, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Personal Memoirs, Student Life & Student Affairs, Popular Culture, Higher
Publication Year
2022
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Education, Social Science
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
F868.S156h78 2022
Reviews
"Deep feelings coursed through me as I read Hua Hsu's story: Grief, nostalgia, pity, terror, mercy... Stay True is a crucial, sense-making, healing book." -- Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior "I was softly heartbroken by Stay True , which is an elegy not just for a friend but for so much else that feels lost and irreplaceable--a time of tender idleness and unmediated presence, a way that it was once possible to be young. The things that make Hua Hsu's writing so singular--his searching grace, his rigorous sensitivity, his ability to make a living world out of the seemingly liminal--crystallize in this once-in-a-lifetime book." --Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror "In this elegant, open-hearted elegy for his fallen friend, Hsu does the labor of love, of taking time to recall and make record of the quotidian detail of another man's life. In this way, he reveals for us all how aesthetics are products of both relationships and of terrible loss. The river of this memoir is quiet and deep, unassuming, it enters the reader and changes us with its capacity for connection." --Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show "'I was a storyteller with a plot twist guaranteed to astound and destroy,' Hua Hsu says of himself, in a tone that is slightly ironic. And yet what he has achieved in Stay True is exactly that: to astound and destroy his reader. This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come." -- Rachel Kushner, two-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room "Hua Hsu's Stay True is a rich, intelligent, and beautifully crafted portrait of just about everything that matters in life. Here is friendship, art, and family cast against a distinctly American backdrop of migration in language so precise and subtle that you might not even notice how it breaks and mends your heart." --Dinaw Mengestu, author of All Our Names "In crafting Stay True , Hua Hsu has opted to trust the consequential size of memories shared with Ken over what we readers feel we are owed. The result is one of the finest memoirs I've ever read. Hsu's narrative efficiency--no wasted words, scenes or sounds--actually creates a splintered narrative that feels like two sides of the most finely curated Maxell tape in 1989." --Kiese Laymon, New York Times bestselling author of Heavy " New Yorker staff writer Hsu braids music, art, and philosophy in his extraordinary debut. . .Hsu parses the grief of losing his friend and eloquently captures the power of friendship and unanswerable questions spurred in the wake of senseless violence. The result is at once a lucid snapshot of life in the nineties, an incredible story of reckoning, and a moving elegy to a fallen friend." -- Publishers Weekly *starred review*, "In this elegant, open-hearted elegy for his fallen friend, Hsu does the labor of love, of taking time to recall and and make record of the quotidian detail of another man's life. In this way, he reveals for us all how aesthetics are products of both relationships and of terrible loss. The river of this memoir is quiet and deep, unassuming, it enters the reader and changes us with its capacity for connection." --Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show
Lccn
2021-055618
Dewey Decimal
979.4/67
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20211206
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