A man in an orange beanie (John Herndon from the band Tortoise aka A Grape Dope) holding a copy of my bright yellow book MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese kitchen. You can see his (smiling!) eyes and nose, but the rest of his face is covered by the book. He’s wearing a black puffer jacket and the back of his hand that’s holding the book has a black ink tattoo on it of a reflected bird sitting on water.
Me, a Burmese woman in a black Tortoise t-shirt with an illustration by John Herndon, who is also an *artist* artist as well as a musician. I am smiling while holding open a copy of my book Mandalay in which you can see I’ve written a dedication to John and drawn a little tortoise.
Happiest thing though:
I got to give a copy of #MandalayBook to @johnherndon.bsky.social 🥰
We’ve been online pals for over a decade now, but I wrote Mandalay after the last time I saw Tortoise - and I acknowledged them in the book!
I drew him a little tortoise of course 🐢
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