Kate Beaton‘s extensively acclaimed graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years within the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly) emerged because the winner of radio competitors Canada Reads 2023 right this moment.
Canada Reads is a ‘battle of the books’ format present the place 5 cultural personalities every champion a special work throughout every week of programming on CBC Radio. Canada Reads 2023 befell between March 27 to 30 with the theme “one book to shift your perspective”.
24-year-old Jeopardy champion Mattea Roach‘s winning argument for Beaton’s Ducks within the closing of Canada Reads 2023:
“We are all implicated within the story that Ducks tells. Ducks is one girl’s story however it’s the story extra broadly of an trade that all of us depend on ultimately…we’re all implicated by the moral questions raised on this e book.
“I think most specifically what this book does is it creates an empathy and a sense of understanding across people who come from different parts of the country. We’ve talked a lot about this story. About the ‘going down the road’ – of leaving Cape Breton, Newfoundland and other places in the Atlantic provinces – and that sense of displacement, but I also think this book articulates the perspective of Albertans who maybe feel as though the rest of the country is riding on their coattails. I won’t comment on how I feel about those opinions but they are real and they are something we need to grapple with.”
Other entrants have been Michael Christie‘s Greenwood (represented by actress Keegan Connor Tracy); Silvia Moreno-Garcia‘s Mexican Gothic (represented by TikTok personality Tasnim Geedi); Dimitri Nasrallah‘s Hotline (represented by bhangra dancer Gurdeep Pandher); and Emily St. John Mandel‘s Station Eleven (represented by actor-director Michael Greyeyes) – the latter of which made it to the final round with Beaton’s Ducks.
To take a look at the finale and Kate Beaton’s post-game interview, right here’s the video:
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