CANNON
presentation of Lee Lai’s graphic novel in dialogue with Elisabetta Mongardi e Marco Libardi
In her latest graphic novel, Lee Lai—an award-winning transgender cartoonist born in Melbourne and based in Québec—tells a powerful, poignant story of friendship between two second-generation Asian queer girls. Against the backdrop of a scorching Montreal summer, amid a cast of unlikely, fleeting partners, the friendship between Cannon and Trish is tested by their growing awareness of impending adulthood.
It’s a tale at once unsettling and delicate, funny and heartbreaking, whose themes will remind many readers of the finest work of Ocean Vuong.
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Lee Lai, originally from Melbourne and now based in Montreal, was named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” in 2021 for her debut graphic novel Stone Fruit (Coconico Press, 2021).
The book has won numerous awards, including two Ignatz Awards and the Gran Guinigi Award from Lucca Comics for Best Screenplay.
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