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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I started a thread on this in the entertainment forum a few weeks ago but it understandably got buried.  Has anyone else read this?  I enjoyed it so much!

(Also thanks for the new forum Jeff!)[/quote]

What did you like about it?  What was it about?[/quote]

It’s a loose autobiography of a cartoonist who goes to work at the Alberta oil sands to pay off her student loans.  It’s a graphic novel btw; the author wrote the early webcomic Hark, A Vagrant, which I read religiously through grad school which is how I first heard of it.

I love the sense of humor but this is a much more serious/coherent story than the little history comics and I thought it was beautifully put together.  I think what I liked best about it was that it draws up and highlights a bunch of contemporary problems — generational wealth inequality, climate change/human impact on the environment, the crushing weight of student loan debt, indigenous people’s land rights, sexism/gender dynamics in make dominated work environments, the way humans get weird in isolated/closed societies, family and cultural relationships, etc — but don’t try to present solutions, just acknowledges that they’re there and in tension with one another.  And it treats all the characters with kindness and respect, I feel like?  I don’t know, it really hit home for me.[/quote]

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