She resents the fairweather relationship Ray and Bron have with Nessie, worries that her own stress is affecting her daughter. “What you’re asking for is to shirk your responsibility so you can fall apart,” she says pointedly. I was particularly drawn to the prickly, controlling Amanda, whose reaction to Ray’s grief is mainly irritation at the loss of her babysitter. “You’ve just been misguided,” her mother responds, rejecting vulnerability. In one scene Bron attempts to find out if her cold mother also suffers from mental illness like she does. Bron leaves Ray almost callously, unable to communicate with her what is going on. The characters behave cruelly and desperately to each other in their attempts to care for each other and themselves. Stone Fruit casts a sympathetic gaze over this warts-and-all story of break-up and tentative reconciliation. They sent her to their local church psychologist to try to convince her that she wasn’t trans. While Ray grieves Bron moves back with her Christian family, attempting to reconcile with her sister, father and mother after leaving them to be with Ray four years earlier. Ray and Bron fight, which leads to their break up months later. “You don’t want to have Nessie getting corrupted by seeing nasty, freaky queer love?” Ray complains to her sister. She asks them to bring Nessie home early. On the other end is Amanda, Ray’s sister and the mother of six-year-old Nessie, the child Ray and her girlfriend Bron are minding. Then a phone rings and one of them, Ray, transforms back into a person as she answers. They push through the forest’s branches and muddy puddles, pursuing a silver dog. They have pointy teeth, goat’s pupils, their hunched bodies led by elongated limbs.
This graphic novel begins with three humanoid monsters running through a forest.
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