Stay True Audiobook Libro.fm

A deeply moving memoir about growing up in the 90s written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend

One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

A quiet occasionally hilarious ultimately devastating book the most moving and memorable piece of autobiography I read this year The Independent The Ten Best Books of 2023

A powerful and beautifully written meditation on guilt memory and male friendship The Guardian Best Books of the Year

This audio edition is soothingly read by the author Hua Hsu

When Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkeley college dorm room he hates him A frat boy with terrible taste in music Ken seems exactly like everyone else For Hua who makes zines and haunts indie record shops Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to the mainstream The only thing Hua the son of Taiwanese immigrants and Ken whose Japanese American family has been in the US for generations have in common is that however they engage with it American culture doesnt seem to have a place for either of them

But despite his first impressions Hua and Ken become friends a friendship built on latenight 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

Capturing a comingofage cut short and a portrait of a beautiful friendship Stay True is an intimate memoir about growing up and moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging

One of the best nonfiction books about friendship ever right up there with Patti Smiths Just Kids The Atlantic