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

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

Rating for now, will keep on thinking about it because it's hard to rate graphic novels and memoirs specifically. i'm glad i read it, i was moved by it and found other parts funny. sometimes it was unclear what was happening in the scene, especially when scenes had changed but the setting hadn't or a new person was being spoken about. but, i was moved by the sections and reactions to rape survived by the author (out of body, returning to a memory instead of being present), and to the realisations of the effect the oil sands have on the environment and indigenous people. i would've liked more focus on those things but its a memoir so it also makes sense that there isn't. nicely drawn comic, quiet moments (auroras, ducks, displacement). worth a read for sure. 
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