Apple: (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth

Apple: (Skin to the Core)

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Apple: (Skin to the Core)

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Apple: (Skin to the Core)

by Eric Gansworth

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PRINTZ AWARD HONOR
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST

A moving memoir-in-verse that chronicles one Native teenager's search for belonging

The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside."

In Apple (Skin to the Core), Eric Gansworth tells his story, the story of his family--of Onondaga among Tuscaroras--of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds.

Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.

P R A I S E

WINNER, AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD

Best of the Year: TIME - NPR - Shelf Awareness - American Indians in Youth Literature

"Stirring.... Raw and moving."--TIME

"Beautiful imagery and with words that soar and scald."--The Buffalo News

"Easily one of the best books to be published in 2020. The kind of book bound to save lives."-- LitHub

"A powerful narrative about identity and belonging." --Paste Magazine

★ "Timely and important." --Booklist (starred)
★ "Searing yet dryly funny." --The Bulletin (starred)
★ "Exceptional." --Shelf-Awareness (starred)
★​ ""Captivating​."" --S​chool Library Journal (starred)
Book Details
Publisher:
Lantern Paperbacks
ISBN:
9781646142033
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
272
Authors:
Eric Gansworth
Published Date:
2022-09-06
Language:
English
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About Eric Gansworth

Raised at the Tuscarora Nation, Eric Gansworth is a writer and visual artist. He is a professor at Canisius University in Buffalo, New York, where he holds the Lowery Writer-in-Residence post. He earned a BA and an MA at State University College at Buffalo. His poetry collections are Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon, Breathing the Monster Alive and A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function, and he has written novels and plays besides. Apple (Skin to the Core), which he calls a young adult memoir-in-verse with images, was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award in young people's literature and named a Printz Honor Book in 2021.

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