This is How a Friendship Ends: A Recipe for Miso Ginger Carrot Bisque
This is an essay about soup, but it is also about friendship. Or rather, this is an essay about soup and how a friendship ends.
Nina Li Coomes is a Japanese and American writer, currently living in Chicago, IL. Her writing has appeared in EATER, The Collapsar, and RHINO Poetry among other places. Her debut chapbook haircut poems was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2017.
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