My Dearest Friend by Lady Red Ego Burning Eye Books and the rituals which make

and the rituals which make that world come in to focus

circles around ideas of black interiority

supermarket shopping and the major adventures of sharpening a pencil and chopping carrots

Cope continues to be the most generous of authors

My Dearest Friend by Lady Red Ego Burning Eye Books and the rituals which makePublished 17th April 2025. My Dearest Friend is a collaborative collection that contains English pieces and Chinese Mandarin translations by my mother, Xiaoyu Luo, and documents our relationship since she was diagnosed with lung cancer. It has 18 previously unpublished original pieces with their respective translations, and also consists of two letters we wrote to each other. The word document contains 40 pages in total. The collaborative format of