Katie Yale: Early in the book, I was struck by this particular passage about Nova Scotia: “I need to tell you this-there is no knowing Cape Breton without knowing how deeply ingrained two diametrically opposed experiences are: A deep love for home, and the knowledge of how frequently we have to leave it to find work somewhere else. Orion’s special projects editor Katie Yale sat down with Kate to discuss the book’s traumas and triumphs. She chronicles her resulting experiences of isolation, misogyny, and environmental extraction with intimate detail and wry humor in her new graphic narrative Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. Unable to find gainful employment in her beloved Nova Scotia, Kate headed west to the oil boom in Alberta. You may know Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton from her wildly popular, pioneering web comic Hark! A Vagrant, but before that success, she was another young person trying to pay off her substantial student loans.
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