Gansworth's writing is beautiful. I'm not sure I had read any of his work before this, but I'm going to go back and look at it. This book details his life growing up on a reservation, and his eventual moving away. In some ways he is an outsider on the reservation as well--Tuscarora on Onondaga land. The title of the book refers to someone who is Native on the outside, white on the inside. I wonder if this has to do with the effect of Indian boarding schools on tribes. That experience is also mentioned.

The whole book is structured similar to an album, and the history of the Beatles comes into play over and over again with the story, in the art and in the writing. There are even liner notes at the end.

It's different than a lot of what I've read this year, and different than a lot of other teen books. I'll have to sit with this one for a while.