Ask a Bookseller: Stay True
Mallory Melton of BookPeople in Austin, Texas recommends a memoir about friendship and grief by New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, titled “Stay True.” 18-year-old Hsu, son of Taiwanese immigrants, loves ‘zines and record shops and declaring his own style. In college, he’s put off at first by Ken, a Japanese-American frat member whose tastes in music and fashion Hsu finds to be decidedly mainstream. Yet they form a friendship that feels both unique and universal. Ken is killed in a carjacking while in college, and Melton admires the honest, raw way the author confronts his grief and stays true…
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