Come Home, Indio

by Jim Terry

  • Street Noise Books
  • 2020
  • ISBN: 978-1951491048
  • 240 pages
  • WorldCat
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About the Book

In his memoir, we are invited to walk through the life of the author, Jim Terry, as he struggles to find security and comfort in an often hostile environment. Between the Ho-Chunk community of his Native American family in Wisconsin and his schoolmates in the Chicago suburbs, he tries in vain to fit in and eventually turns to alcohol to provide an escape from increasing loneliness and alienation. Terry also shares with the reader in exquisite detail the process by which he finds hope and gets sober, as well as the powerful experience of finding something to believe in and to belong to at the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance at Standing Rock. ebook icon

One of the Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2020 by the American Library Association | One of the Best Books of 2020 by Publishers Weekly
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About the Author

Jim Terry grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. His mother was Native American from the Ho-Chunk nation of Wisconsin, and his father was an Irish American jazz musician. Jim is a prolific and accomplished comic book artist who has worked on such comics as The Crow: Skinning the Wolves; Sundowners; Alice Cooper vs. Chaos; and Vampirella.

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