![]() ![]() Bron, in the meanwhile, is looking to repair things with her WASP-y, religious family after a silent period of four years-potentially at the cost of her relationship with Ray. Ray clashes with her sister Amanda over care of Nessie, indignant at the apparent lack of trust between them, and Amanda’s uncomfortable, implicit suspicion of Bron’s transness. ” Over the course of the book, the pair struggle through feeling known, by each other and those around them. ![]() “Having a couple of queer aunties who are going through their own shit at same time felt like a good way. ![]() ![]() I wanted to have a kind of medium for chewing on my own ideas and feelings around childcare and having children,” she tells Bitch via Zoom from her white-walled, plant-filled room in Montreal. “In 2017, 2018, I started drawing these characters. Though she stresses that the story on paper is “very much fiction,” Lai is very open about using her art as a means of exorcising emotional turmoil from her personal life. Not that I’m going to spoil the ending for you. “Can you imagine what would happen next? I can’t!” Unlike me, the 28-year-old cartoonist is happy to leave her characters-girlfriends Ray and Bron, along with Nessie, the incorrigible 6-year-old they parent every so often-exactly where they are at the end of the book. “No!” she exclaims, releasing another ringing peal. Lee Lai laughs loudly and heartily when I ask her if Stone Fruit, her debut graphic novel, might have a sequel in its future. Lee Lai, author of Stone Fruit (Photo credit: Courtesy of the author) ![]()
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