Kate Beaton is a New York Times bestselling author and cartoonist. Her first full-length graphic narrative follows Beaton after university as she heads out west to work in the oil sands. Beaton’s natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, Northern Lights, and Rocky Mountains. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is more than a memoir, it’s also an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people. 

Register for Beaton’s virtual author talk at: https://libraryc.org/salinaspubliclibrary/25126 

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