Part I (Pages 1 - 37)
• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Hsu, Hua. Stay True. Doubleday, New York, 2022. Hardcover.
• This book was written from the first person perspective and in the past tense.
• Hua Hsu spent a lot of time in the car during his college years, a Volvo he inherited from his mother.
• Hsu enjoyed listening to the music of the mid-and-late 1990s in his car with his friends.
• Hsu was Asian-American, and his friend Ken in college was also Asian-American, but Hsu's family was Taiwanese and Ken's was Japanese.
• Back then, Hsu thought cameras felt intrusive to everyday life and would go years without posing for a picture.
• In later years, though, photos felt like evidence that you existed to Hsu.
• When Hsu was an adolescent, his father moved from California where he lived with Hsu and his mother back...
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