Wordfest is thrilled to present award-winning cartoonist Kate Beaton with the graphic-novel memoir the entire world is talking about: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. "It’s arguably her greatest achievement to date... a memoir of her experiences working in the Athabasca oil sands in northern Alberta," raves Wired magazine. "It’s a serious, moving, and heartfelt piece of cartooning that is as kind as it is fearless and easily one of the most impressive graphic novels of this year, or works of any kind in the past decade."