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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.
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A really compelling memoir in verse by Gansworth. I listened to most of it, because I like his voice and I appreciated hearing the poems written in or containing Tuscarora. It was interesting to hear some of his personal stories that clearly influenced If I Ever Get Out of Here. There's photographs that he references and his art in the print version, so I would recommend looking at them even if you choose to do the audiobook. A moving and thoughtful memoir, I know this one will stay with me. I'd love to see in a future BOB list!
I completely fell in love with this book when I read it this summer. So much so, I am now reading it with my sophomores. Every time I pick it up, I am surprised by the voice that comes from it. The lyricism of the verse. It is just so. good.
