Thomas C. Gannon

nonfiction, memoir - reflections on being Indian (remembering time spent at horrendously abusive Indian school, and his alcoholic Irish dad who frequently beat up his mother and called her 'sq---' before she divorced him and filed a restraining order, living in willfully racist South Dakota/Great Plains area) while also checking off a significant number of birds on his life and yearly lists.

interesting and informative - the birding stuff is (admittedly) a bit OCD but not that different from people who still play Pokemon Go. The native (Lakota/ Sioux) perspective is valuable and worth a read.… (més)