Lee Lai · Dibbuk · 2021
The first graphic novel published by Australian Lee Lai is a discovery. Monochrome illustrations are sober and effective, but if something stands out Stone fruit it's because of the script, that intelligently leads us to understand the emotions that arise in the breakup of two women who love each other., but they can't stay together. Depression lurks and love is not enough to make the relationship work. Bron and Ray manage to freeze their problems the afternoons they spend with their niece, but the situation is unsustainable and the sentimental breakup comes, physics and narrative, Then their two separate stories begin in parallel, but close to their respective sisters, with whom they reconnect. complicated characters, sticky and painful family relationships, and ambiguous feelings collude in this open-ended comic in which the biological family can hurt and the chosen one, sometimes, it doesn't quite set. S.M.
