One Book, One College

Announcing the 2024-2025 Selection for Illinois Central College One Book One College!

Apple: Skin to the Core By Eric Gansworth

The ICC Library “One Book, One College” (OBOC) Committee is happy to announce Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth as the 2024-2025 Program Selection.

"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."

Please contact Devon Blumenshine, Student Engagement Librarian, and the chair of the One Book, One College Committee, if you have any questions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 "Eric Gansworth, Sˑha-weñ na-saeˀ, is an enrolled Onondaga writer and visual artist, raised at the Tuscarora Nation. His award-winning books include If I Ever Get Out of Here, Give Me Some Truth, and Extra Indians. He is a professor and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College. He is a Whippoorwill Award winner." (National Book Foundation, 2020)

Selecting

Selections for One Book, One College are made by a team of librarians and faculty from several departments at ICC. If you have a suggestion for next year’s read, please contact Devon Blumenshine.