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Hua Hsu

This person is a young college student and writer -- and the narrator of this memoir -- who loses a good friend to a tragic, violent crime.

Ken

This person is a college student when the person is carjacked and killed one night.

Hsu's Father

This person immigrated to America from Taiwan as a young person, then eventually moved back to accept a position as an executive at a company there.

Hsu's Mother

This person spent a lot of time with the narrator as the narrator was growing up and the other person in their three-person family had moved back to Taiwan.

Mira

This person is the narrator's first sustained romantic relationship.

Joie

The narrator is in a serious relationship with this person after graduating from college.

Jacques Derrida

This philosopher is influential to the narrator as the narrator forms ideas about friendship.

Edward Hallet Carr

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