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. Its 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 familyof Onondaga among Tuscarorasof 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.
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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)
Eric Gansworth, Sˑha-weñ na-saeˀ, (Onondaga, Eel Clan) is a writer and visual artist, born and raised at Tuscarora Nation. He’s been widely published and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions. Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College, he has also been an NEH Distinguished Visiting Professor at Colgate University. His work has received a Printz Honor Award, was Longlisted for the National Book Award and has received an Amelæ
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