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Apple: (Skin to the Core)

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NOW IN PAPERBACK! WINNER, AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD HONOR, MICHAL L. PRINTZ AWARD LONGLIST, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD TIME 10 Best YA and Children's Books of the Year NPR Best of the Year Shelf Awareness Best of the Year Publishers Weekly Big Indie Books of Fall Amazon Best Book of the Month ​American Indians in Youth Literature Best of the Year​ CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Books of the Year "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) 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. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Levine Querido (September 6, 2022)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1646142039


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 33


Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 - 18 years


Grade level ‏ : ‎ 7 - 12


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.13 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.05 x 0.9 x 9 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #113,058 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #9 in Teen & Young Adult Literary Biographies #28 in Poetry for Teens & Young Adults #30,533 in Children's Books (Books)


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    • Powerful, Must Read Memoir of Contemporary Indigenous Life
Powerful, beautiful, heartbreaking - This YA visual and poetic memoir of Eric Gansworth’s family and self is a raw and elegant testimony to his life as Onondaga on the Tuscarora Nation. Forever an outsider on the inside for many reasons, Eric builds the pieces of his family’s past and culture to preserve and understand them and who he is. Much of it is undone through systematic cultural genocide via boarding schools, mainstream media, and an inability for the Tuscarora and Onondaga to thrive upon this reservation land. Yet. Yet the spirit of community and love is tight knight. There is no escaping the nicknames bestowed upon one in your youth or any misstep taken. People gather and share stories of one’s elders until, one day, you discover you’re an elder and those nephews and nieces are carrying forward the traditions you didn’t remember so well. Beyond loss, family, laughter, his memoir is a book of hope. Details: Arranged like a music album with liner notes at the end explaining the significance of the art pieces and record labels. The Beatles White Album plays a heavy role here and readers familiar with Gansworth’s work shouldn’t be surprised. However, it is all beautiful and the perfect metaphor for what he accomplishes in this work. Personal note: I am not indigenous, but parts of this memoir struck my heart. My aunt was Yucci amongst the Creek, although scattered into a bigger city during the Depression. Her son, an enrolled member of her tribe, searches for information about the Yucci for she didn’t know much about her tribal customs. She married my handsome uncle out in California where they moved, and the economy seemed easier there. Did she also feel forever the outsider? I never asked her about her family or past, for I was young and these things you didn’t do as a kid in my family. You listened for whatever the elders choose to say when talking and learn. But my aunt was always silent on this. Thank you for not being silent, Eric Gansworth. More stories about contemporary indigenous life need to be shared. This is highly recommended for young adults on up. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2020 by info_priestess
    • Recommend the Book
The book was really good, what the book was about was really meaningful and it hit close to home. The quality is also really good
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2023 by Emerance
    • Beautifully Written
I finished this book quickly. It is more of an autobiography than a book of poetry. Deeply moving Native American history of one person and his journey. I loved the childhood stories, good and sad. I could relate in so many ways although not Native American. It touched my heart as a child, a mother, and a victim of ethnic discrimination. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2023 by C. Preisler
    • Gift
My daughter loves it
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2022 by Bianca
    • Powerful work of art
This book is amazing. It powerfully reclaims the slur or ‘apple,’ while sharing the author’s own memories and experiences. It shows the importance of community and identity, and highlights the reclamation work being done. I 100% recommend it to everyone!
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2024 by Srn
    • Respect
It was unique to have this written in verse when it is a memoir. In a way, I couldn't enjoy that fact, but I respect it. Eric Gansworth is an Onondaga who grew up on a reservation. He talks about what it was like to grow up with his mother struggling to do their best, and how he had to live with his sister for a while. There were a lot of hardships in his upbringing and education was important during it all. He addresses a lot of the way natives are looked at and the racism he suffered from. The author loves The Beatles, as I do as well. A lot of the book talked about music and used bits of The Beatles' lyrics. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2023 by Justicepirate
    • horrible kindle formatting
Lots of broken lines and forced returns. Recommend paper version instead. It’s less of a story and more of a poem so the formatting makes it difficult to read on screen.
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2022 by KAE
    • VERY powerful book about history most of us no so very little
The history of the USA is about mistreatment of the "other" and the favored of the "chosen". Many times it is Native Americans, or slaves, or Japanese-Americans, or...... USA is not a land where you bring me your poor, etc.... Sadly very few Americans are even taught about the reality.
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2024 by R.L.D.

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