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sophia_sol) wrote2022-10-10 08:03 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2022-10-10 08:03 pm
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton
Oof. The kind of book where you finish and have to just kind of sit in a daze for a while as you let it settle.
This is a graphic memoir by Kate Beaton of Hark! A Vagrant fame, about her two years working in the oil sands of Alberta when she was a fresh university graduate - a very young woman working in an isolated environment that was mostly men separated from their communities. It's a wonderful, nuanced look at a complicated and difficult place, and Kate's writing and art and impeccable sense of pacing do an amazing job of carrying you with her into the emotions of the moment, in everything she depicts.
Not sure what else to say about it, really. Book good. Very recommend. Content notes for sexual harassment and sexual assault.
This is a graphic memoir by Kate Beaton of Hark! A Vagrant fame, about her two years working in the oil sands of Alberta when she was a fresh university graduate - a very young woman working in an isolated environment that was mostly men separated from their communities. It's a wonderful, nuanced look at a complicated and difficult place, and Kate's writing and art and impeccable sense of pacing do an amazing job of carrying you with her into the emotions of the moment, in everything she depicts.
Not sure what else to say about it, really. Book good. Very recommend. Content notes for sexual harassment and sexual assault.