Keep in mind I use Controller Companion with an Xbox One controller as my mouse. It’s definitely on the older end of YA and will likely be appreciated by many adult readers.Originally posted by Tigs:I've run into a mouse-breaking problem while playing the game. It is not a typical young adult memoir, so as the author explained early on, Apple may not be for everyone. Recommendation: Get it soon if you enjoyed Gansworth’s YA novels and/or have an interest in Indigenous history. He loosely connects things using the music related divisions, but it reminded me of someone pulling things out of a box and then telling one story after another as memories surface. He leaves gaps and doesn’t try to give a moment to moment recounting. This is not designed as a seamless narrative. Gansworth has included some photos and his art along with a mix of writing that at times looks like prose and at times looks like poetry. In some ways, this memoir is presented like a scrapbook. Gansworth explores labels that he and others have used as he shares pieces of his past. All of these are names used by American Indians against each other and they all deal with identities in relationship to whiteness. He shares opens with information about nicknames such as Uncle Tomahawk (an Indigenous version of Uncle Tom), Hangs Around the Fort Indian, and Apple. Although there are hard truths presented, his story is not just one of loss, but also one of survival. He shares an important and often ignored part of history.
Some of those government actions were sterilization, removing children and disrupting culture via boarding schools, and destroying or limiting access to food and land. Gansworth really delves into identity and how that has evolved and has been worn away in some cases through the efforts of the government. It very definitely has an older voice and tone. Though I think it has some crossover potential for young readers who have enjoyed Gansworth’s YA novels, I believe it will be appreciated more by adult readers. It’s an absorbing memoir for me as an older reader. The publishing company is marketing this book to young adults and I’m not entirely sure why. Gansworth doesn’t appear to be speaking to anyone specifically, but is choosing not to be silent.
Readers are given the opportunity to participate in the story and learn or to close our eyes and ears. He explains that this story may not be for you, but he has chosen to speak. Review: Eric Gansworth explores identity along with Indigenous history of North America in general and that of his family and his personal history in particular. 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.Įric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking. The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. It’s for someone supposedly “red on the outside, white on the inside.”Įric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The term “Apple” is a slur in Native communities across the country. Summary: How about a book that makes you barge into your boss’s office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way?
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