Stone Fruit

Lee Lai

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Fantagraphics
11 June 2021

Fiction & Literature; Graphic novels

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray's niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seeded personal stumbling blocks. As their emotional intimacy erodes, Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their broken family ties- Ray with her overworked, resentful single-mother sister and Bron with her religious teenage sister who doesn't fully grasp the complexities of gender identity. Taking a leap of faith, each opens up and learns they have more in common with their siblings than they ever knew.

At turns joyful and heartbreaking, Stone Fruit reveals through intimately naturalistic dialog and blue-hued watercolor how painful it can be to truly become vulnerable to your loved ones - and how fulfilling it is to be finally understood for who you are. Lee Lai is one of the most exciting new voices to break into the comics medium and she has created one of the truly sophisticated graphic novel debuts in recent memory.

By: Lee Lai
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 252mm, Width: 215mm,
ISBN: 9781683964261
ISBN 10: 1683964268
Pages: 1
Publication Date: 11 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lee Lai was born in 1993 in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Currently, Lai makes comics and illustrations in Tio'tia: ke (Montreal), Quebec. Her short story comics have been featured in The New Yorker, The Lifted Brow, Room Magazine, and Everyday Feminism.

Reviews for Stone Fruit

The way Lai illustrates emotional truths that can be hard to say with words is stunning. The sheer humanness of this story took my breath away.--Book Riot Lee Lai draws what it's really like to fall in love.--Vice Lee Lai's graphic novel debut is an elegantly illustrated and introspective marvel, a deeply moving story about the push and pull between family and selfhood. ... [A] book that will change the literary landscape in 2021.--O The Oprah Magazine Lee Lai perfectly composes the intricacies of intimacy, the families we stem from and those we grow into. I love her work, the way she pushes around gouache and captures dialogue to render moments so naturalistic, heartbreaking, and humane.--Craig Thompson (Blankets, Habibi)