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LISTEN | Kate Beaton talks to Shelagh Rogers about Ducks : Back home, they were calling it things like 'money jail,'" Beaton told Shelagh Rogers during an interview on The Next Chapter. The fact that somebody was going to hire me and give me money was the good thing. I knew I wasn't gonna like it, but I knew that I should be grateful for the job I was going to get. "Going out there, I knew that I wasn't going to have a good time.

Kate Beaton's affecting Ducks dives into the lonely life of labour in Alberta's oilsands.

Roach successfully argued that Ducks - an autobiographical graphic memoir that recounts author Beaton's time spent working in the Alberta oil sands - best fits the Canada Reads 2023 theme as the "one book to shift your perspective." After getting a job in the camps to pay off her student debt, she recounts her experiences with economic migration, sexism and environmental destruction through an illustrated narrative.

In an emotional finale, the book they championed, Kate Beaton's 2022 graphic memoir Ducks, survived the elimination vote on March 30, 2023. Jeopardy! star Mattea Roach has won Canada Reads 2023. After a blistering few days of debates, the Canada Reads 2023 winner has been crowned.