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Really loved this. The memoir was contained to a certain number of years of his life - before and after the murder of Ken, his friend in college - with older self revisiting diaries, journals, and zines from the time.

Some favorite things:

- Hua's faxes with his dad in Taiwan. Substance, humor, love. The way his dad always signed off with "What do you think?" encouraging more conversation with his son.
- 80s/90s music and film nostalgia galore. Hsu and I are around the same age +/- a few years, but very much same milieu and scene. The familiarity and nostalgia definitely added to my enjoyment of this book.
- Discussion on philosophical particulars of friendship from Derrida (learned that the author also wrote a New Yorker piece on Derrida's friendship writings in 2019)
- Hsu's volunteering with Mien diaspora teens in Oakland and with the incarcerated at San Quentin

4.5/5*