Cannon
Lai, Lee, 1993-2025
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We arrive to wreckage - a restaurant smashed to rubble, with tables and chairs upended riotously. Under the swampy night-time cover of a Montreal heat-wave, this is where we meet our protagonist, Cannon, dripping in little beads of regret sweat. She was supposed to be closing the restaurant for the night, but instead, well, she destroyed it. The mess feels a bit like a horror-scape, not unlike the horror films Cannon and her best friend, Trish, watch together. In high school, they were each other's lifeline - two queer second-generation Chinese nerds trapped in the suburbs. Now, on the uncool side of their twenties, the essentialness of one another feels harder to pin down. Yet, when our stoic and unbendingly well-behaved Cannon finds herself uncharacteristically surrounded by smashed plates, it is Trish who shows up to pull her the hell outta there.
Main title:
Cannon / Lee Lai.
Author:
Lai, Lee, 1993-, author, artist
Imprint:
Montreal : Drawn and Quarterly, 2025.
Collation:
300 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781770468023 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
741.5971
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
9082873