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Stone Fruit
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An exhilarating and tender debut graphic novel that is an ode to the love and connection shared among three women and the child they all adore.
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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 deeply 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 dialogue and blue-hued watercolour 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.
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Stone Fruit is celebrated for its exploration of queer adulthood and the mundane challenges that follow the initial excitement of self-discovery. Reviewers praise it as an impressive debut that resembles the emotional impact of other notable comics and highlight Lee Lai's storytelling prowess. The book's honest and emotional portrayal has garnered acclaim, marking it as a significant entry in the graphic novel genre.
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ISBN: 9781683964261
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 27 May 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Illustration: 1 Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 215.0mm
Height: 252.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 236
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About the Author
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.
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