A01=Lee Lai
aging millennials
Author_Lee Lai
best friends
biking
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coming of age
diaspora family dynamics
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growing up
hospitality workers
kitchen
Montreal
nonbinary
queer friendships
romance
running
Product details
- ISBN 9781770468023
- Dimensions: 184 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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A LAMBDA Award winner and breakout fiction sensation returns with a darkly funny slice of friendship strife. We arrive to wreckage a restaurant smashed to rubble, with tables and chairs upended riotously. Under the swampy nighttime cover of a Montreal heat-wave, this is where we meet our protagonist, Cannon, dripping in little beads of regret sweat. She was supposed to be closing the restaurant for the night, but instead, well, she destroyed it. The mess feels a bit like a horror-scape not unlike the horror films Cannon and her best friend, Trish, watch together. Cooking dinner and digging into deep cuts of Australian horror films on their scheduled weekly hangs has become the glue in their rote relationship. In high school, they were each other's lifeline two queer second-generation Chinese nerds trapped in the suburbs. Now, on the uncool side of their twenties, the essentialness of one another feels harder to pin down. Yet, when our stoic and unbendingly well-behaved Cannon finds herself very uncharacteristically surrounded by smashed plates, it is Trish who shows up to pull her the hell outta there. In Cannon, Lee Lai s much anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed and award-winning Stone Fruit, the full palette of a nervous breakdown is just a slice of what Lai has on offer. As Cannon s shoulders bend under the weight of an aging Gung-gung and an avoidant mother, Lai s sharp sense of humor and sensitive eye produce a story that will hit readers with a smash.
Lee Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio tia:ke (colonially known as Montreal, Canada). In 2021, she was selected as one of the National Book Foundation s 5 Under 35 for her debut graphic novel, Stone Fruit, which went on to win several awards, including the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel, the Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, and two Ignatz Awards. Her comics have appeared on the New Yorker, McSweeney s, the New York Times, Granta Magazine, and the Museum of Modern Art Magazine.
