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adventourer1234 's review for:
Stay True
by Hua Hsu
I enjoyed this book thoroughly. The book reads like a story but feels like a journal. Hsu is unfiltered in the sense that he is honest about the way he discusses his past. He doesn’t cover up the fact that he was lowkey a music nerd that judged people for the type of music they listened to. Consequently, we are given a raw transformation of a person. Too often are we given a picture of perfection. There are times that I read this book and I cringed. Because I saw myself in the author especially in the most embarrassing parts. The way he was so eager to jump straight right into talking about Ken in therapy, his rather peculiar personality, I can see flickers in myself in him. As much as this book is about friendships, death, and growing up, this book felt so much different for me than others. I believe it was the wandering train of thought. Hsu doesn’t try to outwardly reliever any messages of friendships. They are subtlety intertwined in his retelling of stories. In the end, he realizes, despite all the therapy he realizes he still misses Ken. And I miss him too.