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APPLE
Skin to the Core
The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Ganworth's uniquely written novel-in-verse is set to the pacing of Beatles songs; it's a powerful and profoundly raw memoir about growing up in the Native community -- compelling read for adults of all ages.
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.
Gansworth is one of the most cutting edge YA authors writing today, and one of the most important Native voices in all of literature. LQ has two more Young Adult books signed with Gansworth, both straight prose no poetry. The first is a ground-breaking, coming-of-age story about a kid growing up on the reservation and his relationships with his great-uncle who is the last traditional medicine man on the rez, his mother, his friends, and most especially, the white man who once dated his mother. A true, classic bildungsroman in all the best senses.
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Published 2020-10-06 by Levine Querido |