ducks two years in the oil sands by kate beaton

'The issues of my book that take place in 2008, they're happening right now. We are all implicated,' Roach said during Canada Reads 2023 finale. Whether we're people that live in central Canada who benefit from the wealth this industry creates. Whether we are people living in Alberta who go to work in the sands. Ducks is one woman's story, but it is the story of an industry that we all rely on in some way. 'We are all implicated in the story Ducks tells. In 2022, Ducks was named a top Canadian comic by CBC Books and was also one of two Canadian books on Barack Obama's list of favourite books of 2022. Jeff Lemire's Essex County, the only graphic novel to appear in the debates, was voted off in the first round in 2011. The Next Chapter 12:58 Kate Beaton on Ducks Kate Beaton talks to Shelagh Rogers about her graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.ĭucks is the first book in a comics style ever to win Canada Reads. LISTEN | Kate Beaton talks to Shelagh Rogers about Ducks : Back home, they were calling it things like 'money jail,'' Beaton told Shelagh Rogers during an interview on The Next Chapter.

The fact that somebody was going to hire me and give me money was the good thing. I knew I wasn't gonna like it, but I knew that I should be grateful for the job I was going to get. 'Going out there, I knew that I wasn't going to have a good time. Kate Beaton's affecting Ducks dives into the lonely life of labour in Alberta's oilsands.Roach successfully argued that Ducks - an autobiographical graphic memoir that recounts author Beaton's time spent working in the Alberta oil sands - best fits the Canada Reads 2023 theme as the 'one book to shift your perspective.' After getting a job in the camps to pay off her student debt, she recounts her experiences with economic migration, sexism and environmental destruction through an illustrated narrative. In an emotional finale, the book they championed, Kate Beaton's 2022 graphic memoir Ducks, survived the elimination vote on March 30, 2023.

Jeopardy! star Mattea Roach has won Canada Reads 2023. After a blistering few days of debates, the Canada Reads 2023 winner has been crowned.

Ducks two years in the oil sands by kate beaton