Cannon ~ Lee Lai

I loved Lee Lai’s first graphic novel, Stone Fruit , so when I heard that her newest book had won a lot of awards I determined to keep my eye out for it at the library. I finally got it the other day, and it is really good . It’s about a cook in Montreal who is heading to a nervous breakdown (no spoilers; you see the results in the first pages). Lai does wonderful things with visual metaphor. In Cannon , she uses magpies surrounding Cannon to signify building anxiety. Cannon gets interrupted a lot, too, and