GRAPHIC NOVEL

Cannon

Lee Lai

Giramondo, $39.95

Meet Cannon: stoic, dependable, considered. The kind of person others turn to when they need help. Cannon spends nights watching horror films with Trish, a woman she bonded with in high school, one of the “only two gay Chinese Anglophone teens in all of Lennoxville”. In their late 20s, the pair finds that horror’s tales of possession and degradation speak to the terrifying reality of their own lives.

Cannon is surrounded by people she can barely talk to, forced to make decisions and care for her family while working exhausting restaurant shifts. She puts out fires between co-workers and suffers her smarmy boss, Guy, for fear of losing her job. What little free time she has is frequently spent tending to her grandfather.

While Cannon rema

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