![]() ” 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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