I loved that the book takes place over the span of several years, showing vividly how Nina becomes gripped by the desire to piece together her family’s stories. The inspiration taken from Lipan Apache storytelling is incredibly clear from the expertly interwoven structure of the narrative. Though both books contain Little Badger’s rich, deeply lyrical prose and strong storytelling abilities, this new novel reads at a much more leisurely pace. A Snake Falls to Earth is a winding, beautifully written narrative about the feelings of growing up as experienced by the cottonmouth Oli and the Lipan girl Nina. As much as I adored reading Elatsoe, this contrast is not a bad thing. While Darcie Little Badger’s stunning debut novel, Elatsoe, is a deeply focused, fast-paced mystery, A Snake Falls to Earth is anything but. Soon Nina and Oli find that some forces will do anything to keep them apart. The two have never met, but when Earth is struck by disaster and Oli’s closest friend becomes gravely ill, the worlds of humans and monsters collide in a way no one has seen for eons.
Like most cottonmouths, he was forced to leave home on a treacherous journey and make his own. Oli is a cottonmouth, a snake person, who lives in a world of monsters, animal people, and danger around every corner. Nina is a Lipan girl who lives an ordinary life in our ordinary world, but she knows there’s something else out there - something that lives and breathes in her family’s stories. “There did not seem to be any kindness in the world beyond my childhood, and I could never return to the past.” Darcie is married to a veterinarian named T.”įind Darcie Little Badger on the following platforms: Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, is coming in November 2021 and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Elatsoe also won the Locus award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist.
Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little BadgerĬontent Warnings: fantasy violence, brief mentions of colonization,Ībout the Author: “Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography.
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