Their stories run parallel until they ultimately intersect. Meanwhile Oli is a cottonmouth snake who can shapeshift, seeking his place in the world. Nina is a Lipan Apache teen girl trying to translate a story she recorded from her great-grandmother in her native language. While there is an overarching plot, a lot of it is made up of a series of vignettes set in the parallel world of the animal people. Both draw on Lipan Apache culture and mythology, but the structure and type of story here is quite different. It is not to be missed.You should know that A Snake Falls to Earth is a very different book from Elatsoe. Darcie Little Badger draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to weave another unforgettable tale of monsters, magic, and family. 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.Īnd there are some who will kill to keep them apart.Ī Snake Falls to Earth is a breathtaking work of Indigenous futurism. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. She's always felt there was something more out there. "A highly descriptive story which absorbs the audience into its world, readers will become invested in reading until the very end."-School Library Connection ★ "Fun, imaginative, and deeply immersive, this story will be long in the minds of readers."-Publishers Weekly (starred)
A coming-of-age story that beautifully combines tradition and technology for modern audiences."-Kirkus Reviews (starred) ★ "Two richly constructed worlds using a style that evokes the timeless feeling of listening to traditional oral storytelling.
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature
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