RaveKQEDI devoured Hua Hsu’s Stay True in one sitting ... The details of this particular trauma are specific. But to the lingering question — what were the ’90s? — Stay True also serves as an expertly pieced-together collage of life in Berkeley as a twentysomething in the Clinton years, a snapshot that will be immediately recognizable to readers who came of age in that decade ... It becomes clear that Hua’s achievement is the not-so-simple act, 24 years later, of keeping his friend alive.
