Kate Beaton, the mind that gave us perky revolutionaries and a roly-poly Napoleon, now tells the darker side of her life story: How she suffered during the two years she worked in Alberta's oil field.
is a terse, yet surprisingly apt, thesis statement.Fittingly, considering that this is a book about exploitation, Beaton borrows it from the Somali cab driver who gives her a lift to a job site. When he learns that Beaton will be an on-site dweller mixing with day workers, he says,"You be careful, young girl. You live here, they don't. Do you know how people treat a place where they don't live?".
Beaton is best known for her quirky historical comic series Hark! A Vagrant, which became two bestselling books, as well as the equally lighthearted. It may come as a shock to find that there's so much darkness lurking within the mind that gave us those perky revolutionaries, feisty peasants and a roly-poly Napoleon. It's only now that Beaton has seen fit to tell the other side of her life story: how terribly she suffered during the two years she worked in Alberta's oil fields.
Beaton went to Alberta for the same reason that countless others did: To take advantage of the oil rush there and snag a low-skill, high-paying job. She may have been unique among the local workforce in her ultimate goal, though. She saw few other ways to pay off the crushing student loans she'd amassed while getting an arts degree
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