Hua Hsu on the strange characters of memoir
"You essentially turn yourself and other people into characters.
And the more people react to those characters or tell me how they relate to those characters, the more distant I feel from who that character was originally supposed to be."
We spoke with writer Hua Hsu, author of Stay True: A Memoir. It’s a heartfelt, thoughtful book about family, friendship, and figuring out who you are—and was widely lauded as one of the best non-fiction books of 2022.
Stay True: A Memoir
A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, by the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu.
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