New Yorker writer Hua Hsu on maintaining family ties via fax

In his new memoir "Stay True" (Doubleday), New Yorker writer Hua Hsu recalls his teen years as a time of overcoming great distances – both generational and global – one page at a time.

When I was a teenager, my father moved from our home in California to Taiwan for work. My mother and I stayed behind in the U.S. So, my family bought a pair of fax machines.