Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Stay True by Hua Hsu

6 reviews

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, Dysphoria, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Drug use, Cultural appropriation, Racism, Alcohol, and Hate crime

Minor: Racial slurs, Bullying, Sexual content, and Antisemitism

maydaypu's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Racism and Racial slurs

vklyle99's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Murder, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Drug use

queenkath32's review

emotional reflective

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Gun violence and Racial slurs

samchase112's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

This powerful memoir was about so much more than grief and friendship. As Hua Hsu immersed me in 1990s California I became swept along the waves of his coming of age, from faxed letters exchanged with his father to misguided, firmly held convictions to diary entries tinged with feeling, from rooftop balconies to dorm room hangouts to dusty record shops… then along the path of shock and grief, coping and not coping. Interspersed with questions of identity and belonging, history and memory… How can I express my thoughts except to say, life is so sad sometimes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Death, Drug use, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Police brutality and Alcohol

Minor: Racism

cady_sass's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

It feels wrong to be critical about a non fiction personal story, and I don’t necessarily have anything negative to say, but this feels overall like there isn’t any definitive point. It’s very stream of consciousness, which can be fine, but there’s no core statement being made here. I find individual points very poignant and resonant, especially where the author describes his experience as an Asian American immigrant adolescent and college student, and the story of his friends death is senseless and horrible, but it’s just a very long op ed as opposed to a short memoir. Read in just a few hours and perfectly fine read, but ultimately a smidge forgettable. Take my review with a grain of salt, perhaps I’m just not the right audience for this and/or it’s not a style that I love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Racial slurs, Violence, Racism, Bullying, Death, Drug use, and Kidnapping