![]() ![]() While the factories track days without lost time and efficiency, the human wreckage accumulates everywhere in Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022) by Kate Beaton.ĭucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is a powerful graphic memoir. ![]() ![]() It’s dangerous for everyone but in different ways for the women. Life in the oil sands is boring and tedious. Moving from camp to camp, she chases higher pay and better jobs starting in a machine shed before moving to more and more isolated camps chasing an office job and–once her student loans are paid–a chance to leave. Unlike most of the others who migrate there for work Kate is a woman–one of the only ones among thousands of men. Which brings Kate, like so many others, to Fort McMurray–a camp in the oil sands. She knows she’ll return.īut Kate also knows that if she ever wants a future without crippling debt, she has to leave because everyone in Cape Breton knows there is no work there. She knows nowhere else will ever feel like home the way Mabou does. ![]() “It felt like I had a second to decide, and an eternity to live with it.”īefore she ever appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for her comics, Kate Beaton was Katie: A university graduate drowning in debt like a lot of the young people in Canada’s Cape Breton. ![]()
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