Stone Fruit is a graphic novel by Lee Lai, published on May 11, 2021 by Fantagraphics. In 2022, the book won the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel/Comics. It was a Barbara Gittings Literature Award honor book, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics.
Reception
Stone Fruit was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly.
Publishers Weekly applauded how Lai "skillfully captures the ways family dynamics and histories play out in romantic relationships, and how heavy those legacies can land," which results in "a poignant and mature rumination on how people change, and change each other, proving Lai a talent well worth watching."
The Guardian<nowiki/>'s Rachel Cooke provided a mixed review, calling Stone Fruit "[a] downbeat but moving exploration of the aftermath of a relationship." Cooke noted that while the book is affective, "you finish it with no hope at all that its characters will ever be able to resolve their difficulties. There is something intensely bleak at its centre."
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|Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel
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|National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award
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|Barbara Gittings Literature Award
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|Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel/Comics
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|Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics
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|American Library Association's Over the Rainbow Book List
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|Stella Prize
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