![]() ![]() ![]() It’s one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of the Year, a New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year, a Publishers Weekly best nonfiction book of the year, and a New Yorker best book of the year. Stay True is a national bestseller and the winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. Hua’s memoir Stay True is the poignant story of that friendship and the marks it left on his life, as well as a moving reflection on identity, self-discovery, connection, and the immigrant experience. But despite his countercultural interests, he struck up a friendship with Ken, a seemingly mainstream San Diego native whose Japanese-American family had been in the country for generations. The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Hua Hsu grew up desperate to build an identity of his own. ![]() ![]() Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror “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.” ![]()
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