A memoir immersed in his college years at UC Berkeley in twilight of the 1990s, Hua Hsu’s Stay True provides a time capsule back to my own youth as he explores the significance of his college friendships in this ode to his friend Ken who was killed in a carjacking in July 1998. While Hse dives into his own unique story as a son of Taiwanese immigrant parents, this true story of his college journey evokes a California culture that captures the angsty explorations of the Xennia