A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger
A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger
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A Snake Falls to Earth

Author: Darcie Little Badger

Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Kinsale Hueston

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/23/2021


Synopsis

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Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She’s always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he’s been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake.

Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli’s best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven’t been in centuries. And there are some who will kill to keep them apart.

A Snake Falls to Earth is a breathtaking work of Indigenous futurism. Darcie Little Badger draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to weave another unforgettable tale of monsters, magic, and family. It is not to be missed.

About Darcie Little Badger

Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and was a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received the Newbery Honor, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jesse On Youtube on November 30, 2021

IT WAS SO GOOD......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on November 21, 2021

Actual rating: 3.5 stars rounded up You should know that A Snake Falls to Earth is a very different book from Elatsoe. Both draw on Lipan Apache culture and mythology, but the structure and type of story here is quite different. While there is an overarching plot, a lot of it is made up of a series o......more

Goodreads review by Anna on November 12, 2021

This book is masterful. I think I really had to finish it in order to see it that way because there were moments when reading it where I couldn't figure out where was going, but as a whole finished book, it is full of intensely interesting Indigenous storytelling and a wealth of characters who you w......more

Goodreads review by Rod on December 24, 2021

A disappointing follow-up to the terrific Elatsoe. While keeping many of the same elements and wonderful cultural concepts of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas, this book splits itself between chapters narrated in the third person about a teen girl in our world and in the first person by a young cotto......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on August 25, 2022

This book came to my attention because it has been nominated for the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. It certainly shares a connection to one of my favorite Le Guin stories — “Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight” — by populating its pages with magical, mythical characters who are both animals......more