作者：HuaHsu
出版社：Doubleday
副标题：AMemoir
出版年：2022-9-27
页数：208
定价：USD25.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780385547772
内容简介
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From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art.
In the eyes of 18-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 of late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the textbook 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.
作者简介
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HUA HSU is a staff writer at The New Yorker and an associate professor of English at Vassar College. Hsu serves on the executive board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. He was formerly a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family.
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许华的文字是不会让人失望了 and i realize that i have a weird fondness for people who smoke😂
作者的文字我很喜欢，很细腻。比起作者讲故事，我更喜欢看他的reflection和自我解析（刚好和才看完的jay caspian kang的书感受完全相反 – kang我更喜欢看他讲故事，分析和reflection的部分有点混乱）。这本看完很了解作者这个人，有点缺陷的是，对他的朋友Ken，以及Ken成为作者生命中重要的一个人这个过程，好像有点模糊。不知道是不是teenage/college男孩儿的友…
太好看了，太喜欢他的语言了
语言真是精确又舒服。但我实在无法同感两个男性之间的这种友谊。
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