Stay True: A Memoir

"Stay True is an ode to a time and place – UC Berkeley, the mid ‘90s – and to the stuff that forges friendships: mixtapes and zines, late-night talks and long drives. It’s also an ode to a friendship cut short. Ken initially seems to embody the mainstream that Hsu defined himself against. But soon their conversations would shape his worldview – and then Ken was gone, killed in a carjacking. After, Hsu writes, “I became obsessed with the possibility of a sentence that could wend its way backward.” Stay True marks a wrenching, reverent attempt at that sentence."