*Spoilers A reminiscence of his college years at Berkeley University in the 90s, Hua Hsu, originally a Bay Area hipster and now a staff writer for The New Yorker, presents us with dualities: the pull of (sometimes obscure) American pop culture for immigrant outsiders such as himself and his father, the pop culture itself, where it’s difficult to discern if high culture or any culture, is really any better than the low; and finally, his earnest, imperfect, complex personal growth, which he is jolted from by the violent death of a close college buddy, Ken, from a car-jacking. Ken, a popular frat guy with an Americanized name, showed him how little a difference it made, if you were in a frat or not, if you were a cool cat who could talk deconstructionism or not, as long as you could stay true, one of the catch phrases of their friendship. If you are interested in the exploration of the interior life, personal growth, the lens of pop culture, particularly the pop culture of the 90s....