Kate Beaton launches DUCKS (softcover)
Kate spoke about the labour situation in Cape Breton, where she lives, and how people (including herself) need to move away to escape poverty, despite loving it there. She also spoke a lot about fiddlers in Cape Brenton and how virtually all of them had full-time jobs working for railroads, teachers, and other professions while doing their art. She also spoke (and showed) her own experience working on Ducks while pregnant and raising kids, and why it took her 10 years to complete the book. Along the way, there was a musician, Peter MacInnis, playing and contributing to the talk. Mark Medley the did a Q&A with Kate where she discussed the one change they made to the paperback version of the book, the reaction she was expecting and got to Ducks, when she realized she too would need to leave Cape Brenton to find work, how it’s like now in Cape Brenton and if people have moved back, the recent changes in Canada politically in regards to Oil, if moving back home was necessary for her to complete Ducks, how much influence writer Alistair MacLeod had on her, her children’s books, the attacks on books in Canada and the awards her book has received.
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