Apple: Skin to the Core

Eric Gansworth’s poetic memoir combines poems, artwork, musical references, and occasional photographs to tell family and personal history. An enrolled Onondaga raised at the Tuscarora Nation, Gansworth writes about his family and Native community, including his mother, poverty, Dog Street, and the house of his youth. Music, especially the Beatles, recurs throughout the narrative, which follows him from childhood into college. His visual art includes self-portraits that echo the cover of Abbey Road.