Summary
Shortlisted, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2026, Fiction
The much-anticipated follow-up to acclaimed graphic novelist Lee Lai’s Stella-shortlisted Stone Fruit, a funny, dark, emotionally turbulent 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 heatwave, we meet our protagonist, Cannon, dripping in beads of regret sweat. She…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923106406 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923106406 |
| Author: | Lee Lai |
| Publisher: | Giramondo Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Giramondo Publishing Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 918g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 225mm x 192mm |
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About The Author
Lee Lai
Lee Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tiohtia:ke (colonially known as Montreal, Canada). In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and 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, the Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, and two Ignatz Awards. Her comics have appeared on The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, New York Times, Granta, and the Museum of Modern Art’s Magazine.
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