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Newhouse Foundation, and with additional gifts from Helen and Roger Alcaly, The Rona Jaffe Foundation, The Arts and Letters Foundation Inc., William W. Liebman, The von der Heyden Family Foundation, John and Constance Birkelund, and The Samuel I. Mellon Foundation, The Estate of Charles J. Cullman in honor of Brooke Russell Astor, with major support provided by Mrs. The Cullman Center is made possible by a generous endowment from Dorothy and Lewis B. He will discuss the book with poet Ken Chen.

Hua Hsu wrote Stay True during his 2019–2020 Fellowship at the Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Now comes Stay True, Hsu’s bracing memoir about friendship, growing up, and moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging. Grief-stricken when Ken was murdered in a carjacking, Hsu turned to writing. Hua Hsu, the son of Taiwanese immigrants who defined himself against mainstream America, kindled an unlikely friendship–built on late-night conversations and long drives along the California coast–with Ken, whose assimilated Japanese American family had been in the United States for generations. New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu talks about his new memoir, a story of intense friendship, senseless violence, and solace through art.

Floating Chinaman by Hua Hsu