Apple: (Skin to the Core)

by Eric Gansworth

A family story told through verse and image

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Awards & Recognition

Award recognition
Printz Honor Award
Printz Honor Award
Editorial selection
Shelf Awareness Best of the Year
Named to Shelf Awareness's Best of the Year list
Critical praise
Shelf-Awareness starred review
Starred review calling the book exceptional

A family story told through verse and image

In this memoir-in-verse, Eric Gansworth connects his own coming-of-age with the history of his family, identifying them as Onondaga among Tuscaroras. The book examines the slur “Apple,” used in Native communities to describe someone seen as Native on the outside and white on the inside, and frames its reclamation through verse, prose, and imagery. Its scope reaches from the legacy of government boarding schools to the experience of watching siblings leave and return, and to Gansworth’s effort to pursue art while navigating multiple worlds. Identity, family history, and belonging are woven together in a form that combines poetry with prose and visual material.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

Teens and young adults interested in memoir and poetry
Readers seeking Native perspectives on family history, identity, and belonging
Readers interested in books combining verse, prose, and imagery

Themes

Native identity and belongingFamily and community historyGovernment boarding-school legacyArt and navigating multiple worlds

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Book overview

PRINTZ HONOR AWARD
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." --School Library Journal (starred)

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