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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Kate Beaton
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Wow.
This book hit me hard.
I was warned before starting that this book features sexual violence, and for that reason I spent the entire first half of the book just... tense. Waiting for something to happen. Then it did, and it reminded me of my own experiences-- of the experiences of many women, as the book makes sure to point out.
I really want to thank this book for educating me on the oil sands-- a place I knew nothing about. In addition, I loved its thesis that human beings going to work in such an isolated, hypermasculine, practically inhumane place like this are just like ducks dying in the oil sands. We become worse people because of the terrible places where we work, and that's just seen as acceptable-- normal-- every-day. While nowhere near the author's experience, I definitely witnessed some of that at a previous worksite.
Thank you so much for writing this book.
This book hit me hard.
I was warned before starting that this book features sexual violence, and for that reason I spent the entire first half of the book just... tense. Waiting for something to happen. Then it did, and it reminded me of my own experiences-- of the experiences of many women, as the book makes sure to point out.
I really want to thank this book for educating me on the oil sands-- a place I knew nothing about. In addition, I loved its thesis that human beings going to work in such an isolated, hypermasculine, practically inhumane place like this are just like ducks dying in the oil sands. We become worse people because of the terrible places where we work, and that's just seen as acceptable-- normal-- every-day. While nowhere near the author's experience, I definitely witnessed some of that at a previous worksite.
Thank you so much for writing this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment