num_pages: 236
description: Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Rays niece six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness joy and ease in all three of their lives which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seated personal stumbling blocks. As their emotional intimacy erodes Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their broken family ties  Ray with her overworked resentful single-mother sister and Bron with her religious teenage sister who doesnt fully grasp the complexities of gender identity. Taking a leap of faith each opens up and learns they have more in common with their siblings than they ever knew.At turns joyful and heartbreaking Stone Fruit reveals through intimately naturalistic dialog and blue-hued watercolor how painful it can be to truly become vulnerable to your loved ones  and how fulfilling it is to be finally understood for who you are. Lee Lai is one of the most exciting new voices to break into the comics medium and she has created one of the truly sophisticated graphic novel debuts in recent memory.
language: English
title: Stone Fruit
publisher: Fantagraphics