Description

A brutally honest but charming look at the pain of childhood and the
alienation and anxiety of early adulthood.
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.

One of the Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2020, as chosen by the American Library
Association
One of the Best Books of 2020, as chosen by Publishers Weekly