Ducks : two years in the oil sands / Kate Beaton.

By:

Beaton, Kate, 1983-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2022.Edition: 1st edDescription: 430 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9781770462892 (hc.)

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DDC classification:

338.2/728092
B 23/eng/20220902

Awards:

Canada Reads winner 2023. Grey County Reads 2024 nominee.

Summary: "Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush--part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Her first full-length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people"--From publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
High Demand	West Grey Durham Branch Shelves	Non-fiction	338. 272 BEA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Grey County Reads 2024 nominee, 2023 Canada Reads Winner		33321003200574

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"Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush--part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Her first full-length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people"--From publisher.

Canada Reads winner 2023.
Grey County Reads 2024 nominee.

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