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She is married to writer Morgan Murray. [40] She has two children. After living in New York and Toronto, Beaton now lives in Nova Scotia with her family. [41] Awards [ edit ] Year Canada Reads winner Kate Beaton wins 2023 Eisner Awards for best writer/artist and best graphic memoir". CBC. 2023-07-25 . Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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The author touches a bit upon the environmental impact of the oil sands, but her focus is predominantly on the human impact of living in isolation and being expendable... all to make a decent wage. While I hadn't heard of this before, I doubt I'll be forgetting about it. I learn that I can have opportunity or I can have home. I cannot have both, and either will always hurt.” This was a completely unique graphic novel for me—as strong in its narrative as it is in its artwork. If I'm rigorously honest with myself, I perhaps felt a twinge of disappointment that this doesn't play to some of her key strengths. Not to say that this is a humourless book – it isn't – but her sights are clearly set on different things here. It invites comparison not with her earlier history strips, but with other great comics memoirs of recent years like Fun Home or Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?. She's shown that she can absolutely produce that kind of work with the best of them, though to be honest what I liked about her stuff is that she always seemed to be trying things that were completely different from that.a b c "Congratulations to the Harvey Award Recipients!". Archived from the original on 15 March 2016 . Retrieved 13 September 2012. The run turned Roach from a recent University of Toronto grad and aspiring law student into a household name in Canada. Elizabeth Patterson, "Mabou-based writer happy his novel included on 2021 Canada Reads". SaltWire Network, 18 January 2021.
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She watches a TV broadcast featuring a local Cree elder where the people suffer from a high cancer rate. " Everything is ruined; our lives around our lands are ruined, our water, air, everything. At the cost of our lives as long as they get their money. They don't care how many they kill."D+Q to Publish Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant". Drawn & Quarterly. 12 January 2011 . Retrieved 3 August 2011. What a difficult, gorgeous and abidingly humane book. It really does deserve to win all the prizes. Observer The horrible part is how most of the men don’t see their actions as anything other than “how guys are” and find her frustration to be playful instead of actual disgust. Yet it is damaging and takes a huge toll. As Beaton writes in the afterword about the sexual assault that occurs ‘ I was nothing in his life but a short release from the boredom and loneliness endemic in camp life, but he was a major trauma in mine.’ Hunt, Stephen (2022-12-23). "Obama holiday reading list includes Kate Beaton graphic novel about Alberta oil sands". CTV News . Retrieved 2022-12-27.
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Sadly, I don't know a single woman currently over the age of 25 who could read this graphic novel without shaking her head in sadness or groaning with a great sense of solidarity and understanding of the circumstances described here.The Princess and the Pony (New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2015, ISBN 978-0545637084)
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