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Eric Gansworth

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Eric Gansworth, a member of the Onondaga Nation, was born and raised in western New York. The author of seven books, including A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function, which was included on the National Book Critics' Cricle's "Good Reads" List for Spring 2008, and Mending Skins, which won the PEN visa mer Oakland Award in 2006, Gansworth teaches at Canisius College and lives in Niagara Falls, New York. visa färre

Inkluderar namnet: Eric L. Gansworth

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I enjoyed it up until the ending which I felt kind of fell flat compared to the rest of the book.
 
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Kaeli_Cook | 24 andra recensioner | Feb 29, 2024 |
Publisher's overview:
Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York, there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites -- and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.

Gansworth wrote a heartfelt view of a native teenager in a white-dominated middle-grade classroom. The story brings forward valuable insights to "life on the rez": unvarnished, realistic, and searingly unfair. The dynamics between having a white friend as your first true best-friend in a culture where such relationships are derided and native Americans ridiculed were poignant and in the end, rather sad. However, the novel was well-worth reading, though philosophically more relevant for adults and older teens, rather than a middle-grade audience.… (mer)
 
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SandyAMcPherson | 24 andra recensioner | Dec 18, 2023 |
Native American identity issues are explored in this ambitiously structured memoir in verse.

Gansworth (Onondaga) grew up among Tuscaroras. A minority on his reservation, his identity was further complicated by tribal intermarriage and the fact that three of his grandparents suffered forced assimilation in Indian boarding schools. Fascinated with Batman and masks, his boyhood was spent looking for a costume that would reveal his true self. His mother warned “it’s a white man’s world” while also acknowledging that Gansworth himself seemed destined for more. The memoir is high concept, structured like a palimpsest over the Beatles’ oeuvre. The title alludes to the Beatles’ Apple Records as well as the Native slur that implies someone is “red on the outside, white on the inside.” Written in a nostalgic tone, the book emphasizes cultural dislocation: “So much of my culture feels on the verge of vanishing. I wonder what part of that I’m contributing to with my own lack of knowledge.” Gansworth’s take on his great-uncles’ “erasing themselves too fully to ever come home” complicates his efforts to reclaim the pejorative. From his childhood to his life as a college student and writer, the book skims over a lifetime; feelings of intimacy and emotional intensity are variable even as the elliptical voice is unique. Black-and-white reproductions of Gansworth’s paintings and family photographs enhance and extend the text in a work originally conceived of as a visual arts project.

A rare and special read. (liner notes, section notes, note about the art) (Verse memoir. 12-18)

-Kirkus Review
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CDJLibrary | 5 andra recensioner | Jun 9, 2023 |
Gansworth shares his memoir and a meditation on his family and growing up Native. The free verse sometimes jumps in time. There are stanzas and lines and themes that echo throughout the book.
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ewyatt | 5 andra recensioner | Feb 10, 2023 |

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Verk
13
Även av
10
Medlemmar
974
Popularitet
#26,441
Betyg
4.0
Recensioner
36
ISBN
50

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