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Hua Hsu’s Stay True Reviewed in the New York Times and Covered on NPR, GQ, CBS, and Others

Hua Hsu’s <em>Stay True</em> Reviewed in the <em>New York Times</em> and Covered on NPR, <em>GQ</em>, CBS, and Others

Hua Hsu and his memoir, Stay True.

“This is a memoir that gathers power through accretion,” writes Jennifer Szalai of Professor of Literature Hua Hsu’s Stay True for the New York Times. Calling Stay True “quietly wrenching,” and Hsu himself “a subtle writer, not a showy one,” Szalai hesitates to put the memoir too tidily into any one box. “To say that this book is about grief or coming-of-age doesn’t quite do it justice; nor is it mainly about being Asian American, even though there are glimmers of that too,” she writes. Instead, she sees Stay True as a patient exploration of a friendship cut short by tragedy, and the ways in which such bonds can linger on in our lives and writing. The memoir was also reviewed in the Washington Post, and Hsu was profiled on Vulture, as well as interviewed by CBS News, GQ, NPR, and others.