Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

"This autobiographical graphic novel gives the kind of honest look into someone’s life that feels rare when social media encourages us to share only our happiest moments. In it, Kate Beaton, author of the popular webcomic Hark! A Vagrant, shares the brutal reality of her early professional life. As a new grad who needs to pay back her student loans, she moves to an isolated part of Canada for a job in the male-dominated oil industry. The beautifully drawn Ducks offers us a haunting look at the isolation and misogyny endemic to the profession – as well as small moments of hope and tenderness."