User:Robkelk/sandbox/Works pages/Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

"This story starts in 2005. I am twenty-one years old. This is me at twenty-one. I'm much older now, and three dimensional."

- The first lines of the book.

Before Kate Beaton created Hark! A Vagrant, young Katie Beaton needed to pay off her student loans. She did what so many people in Atlantic Canada did in the 2000s (and before and since): she went west to Alberta to work in the oil industry. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is the story of what she did in Alberta.

A memoir in graphic novel form, Ducks is also an exploration of the culture of Canada's oilpatch, as seen through the eyes of a young woman who had no idea what to expect...

needs more description, which has to wait until I've read more of the book. It's 421 pages long, plus the afterword, and I'm only 40 pages in.

Ducks was one of the books featured in, and the book that won, the 2023 edition of Canada Reads.