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Life – you gotta do it

Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

Cannon by Lee Lai

April 30, 2026 by vega-table Leave a Comment

Lee Lai’s graphic novels Stone Fruit and Cannon are both about being queer Chinese women in North America. They’re about people and relationships and living lives that don’t really have beginning-middle-end stories. They just have yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Repeat. Stone Fruit – Why is it called that? I think it’s because stone fruit are soft and sweet. But if you continue eating blindly, they get hard and bitter. It’s such common knowledge that there’s a hard pit in the middle, no one will think […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Lee Lai

vega-table's CBR18 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Lee Lai ·
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Ode to love (self & others) and the twisted path to it

Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

February 13, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I have wanted to read Stone Fruit by Lee Lai for several years now. I have had online reader copies, opportunities to get the finished book and then one day I said, “Self, we are asking our library for an interlibrary loan if they don’t have it on shelf.”  And then I read it and thought: Perhaps this is the most straightforward maze of a story I’ve recently read. Not an easy read, but moves at the quickest snail pace. It is a combination of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance Tagged With: family, Lee Lai, LGBTQ, Sex & Gender, siblings, Sisters, women

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:90 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance · Tags: family, Lee Lai, LGBTQ, Sex & Gender, siblings, Sisters, women ·
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Family defines you, so choose wisely

Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

June 12, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

In Stone Fruit, Bron and Ray help parent Ray’s single-mother sister’s daughter Nessie, retreating with her into a fantasy world largely of Bron’s creation. Nessie readily takes to it, and the three of them seem like a happy family. That is, until Ray’s sister calls and you realize the situation. She seems to harbor negative feelings towards Bron, or at least that’s how Ray interprets things, and pleads for more structure her child when she’s with the two of them. From here, the cracks start […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Lee Lai, Stone Fruit

Travis_J_Smith's CBR14 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Lee Lai, Stone Fruit ·
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    What to be said regarding this book you said as I agree with you about this book.
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    on “To be so ravenous with desperation that the only way out is complete and utter annihilation. A torpedo made of your own sharpened body.”- Senaa Ahmad (or me about wanting to quit this book)
    Also, I appreciate your Godzilla gif as it sums up the way I felt .
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