Come Home, Indio by Jim Terry6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() 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. Reckoning with sobriety requires connection and humility, as Terry makes the case for with sincerity and beauty, as he ties his recovery to his spiritual homecoming." -Starred Review, Publishers WeeklyĪ brutally honest but charming look at the pain of childhood and the alienation and anxiety of early adulthood. Starred Review Terry, known for his outstanding superhero illustrations, turns the lens inward in this brutally honest memoir. "Fortunately for readers of this raw and intimate graphic memoir, Terry never fully lets go of his youthful vulnerability. One of the Best Books of 2020, as chosen by Publishers Weekly One of the Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2020, as chosen by the American Library Association In his Graphic Content column, Ed Park looks at The Black Panther Party, a new history of the group, and Come Home, Indio, a memoir about growing up part Native American. ![]() "a tour de force of comics" (Ed Park, The New York Times) ![]()
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