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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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Death, Drug use, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Police brutality and Alcohol
Minor: Racism
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