Stone Fruit
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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 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.
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This was just gorgeous! A beautiful look into how relationships change and shift just like the people in them.
loved how ‘free play time' transformed them. about identities and families, and how changing one affects the other.
This cute short story made me feel things. It is very real and touched me in ways I didn't expect. The art style isn't my favourite but I got used to it pretty quickly and its definitely beautiful in its own way.
ugh as a tired, sad adult it made me sad to read about tired, sad adults. like i had a stone fruit in my throat and a pit in my heart. i loved it but i wouldn't keep it on my shelf kinda book.
