Stay True by Hua Hsu

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Stay True

Hua Hsu

4.04 AVERAGE

sil_a's review against another edition

3.0
This is a sad book. I did not realize going in. It is a focused memoir that centers on an event that happened in college and left its marks. Hsu is a fine writer, a New Yorker staff writer and a professor with a PhD from Harvard. Surprisingly, this memoir felt flat to me. As many memoirs out there today, this is introspective to a fault. It has its merits, but it did not inspire me.

adamjuwig's review against another edition

4.0
adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

reader1657's review

The author lived through one of my worst nightmares so I guess that means something??
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bellam2811's review

4.0
reflective medium-paced
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sarahjfloyd's review

DID NOT FINISH: 38%
I just couldn’t listen to him prattle on about his superior music taste. 
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transgrampa's review against another edition

3.0
I wasn’t really wowed? It didn’t have to wow me. But it felt flat and like not something I would enjoy reading about myself if I were dead. I want to read another book by Hsu.

safianaqui's review against another edition

4.0
emotional medium-paced
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kdeepost's review against another edition

4.25
emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

justin_gerber's review against another edition

4.0
“‘It’s fucked up the way it is sometimes.’”
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sammies_shelf's review

4.0
reflective