Boston ABG December Meeting!
Schedule
Sun, 15 Dec, 2024 at 02:00 pm
Location
City of Cambridge (Official) | Cambridge, MA
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PSA: All attendees must take a rapid test the day of the meeting. This meeting will be held in Cambridge. Please message the page for the exact address.We're wrapping up another year of Boston ABG with a book that's on everyone's TBR. We're thoughtful like that.
Our December read is “Stay True" by Hua Hsu. This event is open to AAPI. Please bring a snack to share.
About the book: "In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes ’zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn’t seem to have a place for either of them.
But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become friends, a friendship built on late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking, not even three years after the day they first meet.
Determined to hold on to all that was left of one of his closest friends—his memories—Hua turned to writing. Stay True is the book he’s been working on ever since. A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging."
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Where is it happening?
City of Cambridge (Official), 795 Massachusetts Avenue,Cambridge,MA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
