Lemonade

An understated existential inquiry, Lemonade unfolds through a series of interconnected vignettes into a quiet meditation on meaning and worth—how we decide what matters, and how we make sense of what we decide.

At the centre of the book is a single lemon.

From orchard to highway, market, kitchen, bar, and finally back to the earth, it passes through different hands and different ways of seeing.

Part philosophical novel, part contemporary fable, Lemonade explores the private philosophies embedded in everyday life and the limits of our own perception.

Quiet, spare, and deceptively simple, it asks how much of the world we truly perceive—and how much we construct from the small portion available to us.

Traid's illustrations mirror his prose: pared down, reflective, and quietly philosophical. He uses abstraction and tonal geometry to draw attention to the unnoticed details of daily life, allowing ordinary objects to feel symbolic without losing their physical presence.