A review by bnelson13
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

Well damn. I'm not sure what I was expecting going into this, but it wasn't quite this. This graphic novel tells the story of Kate, and some of the other women, who work in the Alberta Oil Sands, and their experiences there. And if you're a woman, then you know that this experience is as every bit of messed up as you could imagine. From continuous daily sexual harassment from the men who outnumber them 50-1, to being gaslight by men, even though she thought they were her friends, when she was r*ped, not once but twice, Kate's time in the oil sands must have been so mentally draining, especially in a time when mental health was hardly touched upon. 

I would have liked to have more about the destruction of the environment than what was touched on in the book, but this book is a memior and therefore only specific to one person. 

I really enjoyed that it is in graphic novel form, it makes it a quick read. However, I also feel like the plot jumped around quite a bit, and that an event would just start to be talked about, and then it abruptly switched to something else.

Overall, an incredible read. I'll be recommending it to others for sure.