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Hua Hsu on His New Memoir, ‘Stay True’

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His new memoir is both a coming-of-age story and an evolutionary step for Asian American literature.

Photo: Alex Hodor-Lee This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Hua Hsu entered the store with a box full of books. “I’ve reached an age where I realized I have more than I could possibly read,” he told me after dropping the titles with an appraiser at Unnameable Books in Prospect Heights, where we had agreed to meet this summer so he could make a quick sale before we began our interview in earnest. The proprietors clearly knew Hsu from previous visits, an unmistakable figure even in a KN95 mask, his hair shoot

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