7/2/2023 0 Comments Ducks book beatonFiguring she’ll stay there just long enough to pay off her loans, Kate knows the environment will be tough, but she’s shocked by the hyper-masculinzed hellscape that it turns out to be. In order to pay off her student loans, Kate takes a job in the oil sands of Alberta, working for a major oil company in the tool crib. Kate Beaton is from Cape Breton, and everyone knows that in order to make anything of yourself economically, you can’t stay there. Trigger warnings for sexual assault there’s nothing graphic, but there are multiple rapes discussed in this book. No matter, though! It came home with me and I read it in less than a day. I thought I’d put it on my TBR (I remember nowhere near me had it, though, so I would’ve had to get it via interlibrary loan), but weirdly, I didn’t end up having it on my list after I recognized it at a shelf on my first visit to our new library. The premise – about a young woman’s time working for the oil companies in Alberta, far from her home in Cape Breton – sounded fascinating. A while back, I learned about the existence of the graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (Drawn and Quarterly, 2022).
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