There are pages that amusingly convey tedium and pages that refreshingly offer sweeping landscape spreads interspersed with tense scenes of how hard life is at the camps. What were your overall impressions?Įmily: This book is long, and spans years - though the setting feels bleak and unchanging at times, the pacing is nicely varied. Her experiences there, in a bleak and unfriendly environment where men outnumber women drastically, and almost everyone is displaced, are the subject of the memoir. She goes to isolated mining camps in Alberta to pay off her student loans as quickly as possible. WWAC-ers Elvie, Emily, and Masha gathered to discuss its features and impact.ĭucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands Kate Beatonĭucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands introduces Katie graduating from college and making the tough decision to work far away from her comfortable but impoverished home town. At over 400 pages of Beaton’s distinctive intimate and emotional style, Ducks is a remarkable addition to the graphic memoir genre, at turns hilarious and heartbreaking, telling a story I, personally, had never known. Here at WWAC, we’ve been fans of Kate Beaton for a long time, so we were especially excited for the publication of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Beaton’s highly anticipated memoir of her time working in the isolated Alberta oil-mining camps.
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