Apple: (Skin to the Core)

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 CSMCL Best Multicultural Children’s 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.