Stay True by Hua Hsu
Published 2022 · 57,200 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Stay True to read?
Stay True scores 43 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 48 out of 100
- Plain, precise vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Short, quiet sentences.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Concrete friendship with light cultural theory.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Moderate.
How Stay True is regarded
Stay True holds a literary regard score of 48 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.