Apple
(Skin to the Core)
Published on 28. September 2021
Book
Hardback
978-1-4328-8931-9 (ISBN)
Description
National Book Award Longlist
TIME's 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2020
NPR's Best Book of 2020
Shelf Awareness's Best Books of 2020
Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall
Amazon's Best Book of the Month
AICL Best YA Books of 2020
>PRAISE 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 FOUR STARRED REVIEWS ★ Timely and important. --Booklist, starred review ★ Searing yet dryly funny. --The Bulletin, starred review ★ Exceptional. --Shelf-Awareness, starred review ★ Captivating. --School Library Journal, starred review 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.
TIME's 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2020
NPR's Best Book of 2020
Shelf Awareness's Best Books of 2020
Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall
Amazon's Best Book of the Month
AICL Best YA Books of 2020
>PRAISE 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 FOUR STARRED REVIEWS ★ Timely and important. --Booklist, starred review ★ Searing yet dryly funny. --The Bulletin, starred review ★ Exceptional. --Shelf-Awareness, starred review ★ Captivating. --School Library Journal, starred review 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.
More details
Edition
Large type / large print edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Young adult
US School Grade: From Second Grade to Twelfth Grade, Interest Age: From 12 to 17 years
Edition type
Large type / large print edition
Product notice
Library binding
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
717 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4328-8931-9 (9781432889319)
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Person
Eric Gansworth, S˙ha-weñ na-saeˀ, is an enrolled Onondaga writer and visual artist, raised at the Tuscarora Nation. His award-winning books include If I Ever Get Out of Here, Give Me Some Truth, and Extra Indians. He is a Professor and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College.