![]() ![]() In a very interesting technique, she also employs an absence of shading, leaving the lined drawings on the white page to express lighter moods, helping us gauge how the characters are feeling from panel to panel. It is the right choice for the story being told. ![]() Lai uses a monochrome colour palette for this graphic novel, which gives the book a very bleak feeling, as though it is raining all the time, and happiness has been drained from every page. The hype around this book was very present in the community, and I do not think readers will be disappointed. We also live in a city obsessed with its creators and creations, and when a Montreal author, such as Lee Lai, has a debut graphic novel with Fantagraphics, we come out to support. So I, like many of her fans, loved Stone Fruit before it even came out. Cartoonist Lee Lai has been teasing us with her debut graphic novel for years: those following her Instagram page got to see snippets of this work coming to fruition. ![]()
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