{"product_id":"stay-true-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize-in-memoir-9781035036370","title":"Stay True: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eStay True is a powerful and beautifully written meditation on guilt, memory, and male friendship, capturing a coming-of-age cut short and a portrait of a beautiful friendship. It was written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend and won the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 14 September 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Pan Macmillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA deeply moving memoir about growing up in the 90s, written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful and beautifully written meditation on guilt, memory, and male friendship. – The Guardian, Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 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\u003eCapturing a coming-of-age 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the best nonfiction books about friendship ever, right up there with Patti Smith's Just Kids. – The Atlantic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 166g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 198 x 132 x 13 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781035036370\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hua Hsu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44572907176186,"sku":"9781035036370","price":7.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1694797481194_book.jpg?v=1695056309","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/stay-true-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize-in-memoir-9781035036370","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}