Darcie Little Badger is an Earth scientist, writer, and fan of the weird, beautiful, and haunting. She is an enrolled member of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas. Her first novel, Elatsoe, was a National Indie Bestseller, named to over a dozen best-of-year lists, and called one of the Best 100 Fantasy Novels of All Time by Time.
"Evokes the timeless feeling of listening to traditional oral
storytelling."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Fun, imaginative, and deeply immersive, this story will be long in
the minds of readers."-- Publishers Weekly (starred)
"Magical, stunning, and wholly original."--Booklist (starred)
"A highly descriptive story with open dialogue which absorbs the
audience into its world, readers will become invested in reading
until the very end."--School Library Connection
"Both authentic and original. Strong, subtle worldbuilding allows
readers to immerse themselves in Nina's near future world of
increased climate change and advanced social media technology and
in Oli's magical world of spirits, monsters, and old stories come
to life." --The Hub (a YALSA Blog)
"Draws on her scientific training and tribal storytelling to weave
a spellbinding tale." -- Texas Monthly
"Her work is magical for all ages."--Den of Geek
"If Elatsoe was a ten out of ten, then A Snake Falls to Earth is a
solid 11. This book could have been twice as long and I still would
have begged for more. Although aimed at a young-adult audience, it
has the kind of easy appeal and heartfelt tone that will entice
younger kids and older adults as well. Anyone reading or buying YA
needs to add this to their shelves immediately." -- Locus
"Little Badger's new genre-bending narrative draws on her heritage
and the tradition of story-telling that has informed her
worldview."--TIME
"Themes of magic, family, asexuality, and traditional storytelling
dominate in Lipan Apache author Darcie Little Badger's delightful
and uplifting second YA novel. A Lipan girl named Nina collides
with Oli who is from the land of spirits and monsters. But some
people will do anything to keep them apart. This is a wholesome,
elegantly written read guaranteed to warm your heart!" --
Autostraddle
"This is a delightful and imaginative novel with alternating
protagonists. One is Nina, a teenager trying to translate a story
told by her great-great-grandmother in her native Athabaskan
language, Lipan. The other is Oli, a cottonmouth snake with the
ability to shapeshift, who is learning to find his way after being
pushed from the nest. Climate change features, informed by the
author's geoscience degree and PhD in oceanography. Another theme
is linguistic diversity and the crucial role of storytelling in
keeping cultures alive. A Snake Falls to Earth is also very much a
story of friendship."--Five Books
"Though the stakes are high, Little Badger takes time to explore
the ways that other species and cultures move through space and
time, and what is lost when those ways of seeing disappear." --
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Undeniably charming. There is no pretension in the writing, no
forced attempts at being on trend, and yet it is completely
relevant--whether it is that certain characters are asexual, or use
the pronoun they, or the power of the internet, or whether it is
the frightening, timely talk of rapid climate change and how it
effects more lives than just those of humans, whether it is to
remind us that our longevity as humans is intertwined with that of
other species, and with that of the earth, or whether it is to
remind us of what is most important, the one thing that may save us
all--the power of stories, and community."--Tor.com
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