As a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific (2016), Hua Hsu has written widely on politics and culture. He recently published a memoir, Stay True (2022), which probes friendship, personal tragedy, and the immigrant experience. Drawn to the fragmented stories amateur photographs leave behind, Hsu is now building a collection of them.
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