{"product_id":"9780593315200","title":"Stay True","description":"\u003ch1 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMAX'S PICK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHua loves and misses his friend Ken so beautifully. An example to me of some ways I can love my own friends better. - MA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, by the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e staff writer Hua Hsu\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie \u0026amp; Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is \u003ci\u003eexactly \u003c\/i\u003elike 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetermined to hold on to all that was left of one of his closest friends—his memories—Hua turned to writing. \u003ci\u003eStay True\u003c\/i\u003e is the book he’s been working on ever since. A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, \u003ci\u003eStay True\u003c\/i\u003e is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback | 208 pages | 5.16\" x 7.97\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hua Hsu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44598619930856,"sku":"9780593315200x","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/BNCImageAPI_38120519-57fd-47b7-8605-a8eb2220bbbd.jpg?v=1692764455","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/9780593315200","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}