HeyJaredWriting Our Lives
My work is grounded in 1980s Bushwick, Brooklyn, a neglected Black and Brown neighborhood that I left when I was 13. I return to my home hood in my stories to make visible the invisible, & chronicle my life in the tradition of Esmeralda Santiago.
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Sopa Ministry for the Grieving & Unmothered (opens the original)
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If you know me, you know that I love making cauldrons of soup. I’ve already made two in the past few weeks. The first one was a beef neck bone and shank soup, thick with yucca and kabocha squash, served with a side of white rice and a big hunk of aguacate. Yesterday I made a chicken soup to calm my sour belly. Thanks for reading Writing Our Lives! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="email-input" n
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