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Hua Hsu: Stay True (2022, Diversified Publishing) 4 stars

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the …

Moving exploration of friendship and its meaning

5 stars

Couldn't put this memoir down. Hsu's observations include touching considerations of his relationship with his Taiwanese parents from his early childhood to the long distance relationship with his father as a teenager. Then he summons great memories of early college friendship. There is music here and early internet exuberance along with a heavy recollection of a traumatic loss in the throes of self discovery.