![]() In Nessie’s company, they’re at their best, the problems in their relationship made distant by her innocence and excitement. This is her first graphic novel and it impresses from the moment we first meet Bron and Ray, a couple who relish their role as wild, alternative aunties to Ray’s six-year-old niece, Nessie. Lee Lai is an Australian cartoonist who lives in Montreal her short comics have appeared in the New Yorker. ![]() There is something intensely bleak at its centre: a sense, perhaps, that while blood is not always thicker than water, even happily chosen families may not be able to withstand certain kinds of emotional inheritance.īut I don’t want to put you off. ![]() But you finish it with no hope at all that its characters will ever be able to resolve their difficulties. Granted, its treatment of the unfathomable silences that can often be found at the heart of a family is magnificently unvarnished if its minimalist, indie-film tone is ever downbeat, it’s also, at moments, highly affecting. L ee Lai’s graphic novel, Stone Fruit, named after a nectarine on which one of its characters chips a tooth, is not much of a book for spring. ![]()
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