white mushroom, black earth

"Nate said he couldn’t host me this weekend. Asuka is coming back to New York -- Saturday -- and the couch has to be hers. But he said, he could hang for a bit."

--excerpt from White Mushroo, Black Earth

 

Nate in real life is Nate Boguszewski. He is a musician, photographer, traveler while working in a web company. He is an advocate of web-sharing/exchange culture like couchsurfing and craigslist. Mengxi stayed with him for two days in December 2014 and they stayed friends since then.