Kate Beaton‘s extensively acclaimed graphic memoir Geese: Two Years within the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly) emerged because the winner of radio competitors Canada Reads 2023 immediately.
Canada Reads is a ‘battle of the books’ format present the place 5 cultural personalities every champion a unique work throughout per week of programming on CBC Radio. Canada Reads 2023 occurred between March 27 to 30 with the theme “one e book to shift your perspective”.
24-year-old Jeopardy champion Mattea Roach‘s profitable argument for Beaton’s Geese within the last of Canada Reads 2023:
“We’re all implicated within the story that Geese tells. Geese is one girl’s story however it’s the story extra broadly of an business that all of us depend on not directly…we’re all implicated by the moral questions raised on this e book.
“I believe most particularly what this e book does is it creates an empathy and a way of understanding throughout individuals who come from totally different elements of the nation. We’ve talked lots about this story. Concerning the ‘happening the street’ – of leaving Cape Breton, Newfoundland and different locations within the Atlantic provinces – and that sense of displacement, however I additionally suppose this e book articulates the attitude of Albertans who perhaps really feel as if the remainder of the nation is driving on their coattails. I gained’t touch upon how I really feel about these opinions however they’re actual and they’re one thing we have to grapple with.”
Different entrants had been Michael Christie‘s Greenwood (represented by actress Keegan Connor Tracy); Silvia Moreno-Garcia‘s Mexican Gothic (represented by TikTok character Tasnim Geedi); Dimitri Nasrallah‘s Hotline (represented by bhangra dancer Gurdeep Pandher); and Emily St. John Mandel‘s Station Eleven (represented by actor-director Michael Greyeyes) – the latter of which made it to the ultimate spherical with Beaton’s Geese.
To take a look at the finale and Kate Beaton’s post-game interview, right here’s the video:
