I love Guy Delisle's work, and his latest is no exception. This chronicles his work at a paper mill as a teenager and young adult over three summers as he's finishing high school and beginning college. Delisle takes you inside the mill, showing how it runs and introducing you to the other men he worked with. It's subtle - never too detailed and well laid-out so it's easy to follow - but still manages to touch on father-son relationships, labor movements, modernization, the environmental consequences of earlier mill activity and the monotony and hijinks of shift work.

I'm a huge fan of Delisle's work and while this one wasn't quite as long or detailed as some of the books I really enjoyed the insights of Quebec, before reading this I had no idea that it was so unusual to hear an anglophone or that you could grow up in Canada completely French.
I'm a printer's daughter and much of the factory layout, noise, heat & danger felt very familiar, as did the shadowing of how computerisation was going to change the landscape.