Apple: (Skin To The Core)

"When I recommend a certain touching, funny, vulnerable, scathing, endearing YA poetry memoir to my Native cousins, they do a doubletake at the title, Apple. After all, it’s considered a slur in Indian Country (“red on the outside, white on the inside”). Then I add the words that follow, Skin to the Core, which prompts a smile at the author’s cleverness. In Apple (Skin to the Core), Onondaga Eric Gansworth is wry and engaging as he reflects upon a lifetime of topics, including the impact of U.S. federal Indian boarding schools, the complexities of modern Native identity and pop culture, especially music and visual arts."