SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Hua Hsu opens his new memoir with a gorgeous evocation of young Berkeley students driving around and coming of age, with Hua alongside his best friend, Ken. Let’s ask the author to read from his book “Stay True.”
HUA HSU: (Reading) At that age, time moves slow. You’re eager for something to happen – passing time in parking lots, hands deep in your pockets, trying to figure out where to go next. Life happened elsewhere. It was simply a matter of finding a map that led there. Or maybe at that age, time moves fast. You’re so desperate for action that you forget to remember things as they happen. A day felt like forever. A year was a geological era. We laughed so hard we thought we’d die. We cycled through legendary infatuations sure to devastate us for the rest of our lives. For a while, you were convinced that you would one day…
