#34Ducks, feat. Marc Herman Lynch
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*TW: This episode includes discussion of sexual violence.* Today we talk Ducks, Kate Beaton\\u2019s celebrated graphic memoir \\u2014 winner of Canada Reads, a New York Times Notable Book \\u2014 about her two years working in the oil sands of Fort McMurray, where men outnumber women fifty to one. Harsh economic realities forced Beaton to leave her Cape Breton home for northern Alberta, where she found strange beauty in a desolate landscape, and human connection in the midst of sexual harassment, danger, and even violence. The book gorgeously and heartrendingly depicts a time, place and culture. For our discussion, we're joined by Marc Herman Lynch, author of the novel Arborescent (2020) and a cartoon enthusiast who grew up in Fort McMurray.
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