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Levine Querido
A Snake Falls to Earth
A Snake Falls to Earth
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National Indie Bestseller
National Book Award Longlist
Minneapolis Star Tribune Best of the Year
Publishers Weekly's Best of the Year
Kirkus Reviews' Best the Year
Apple's Best of the Year
Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best
New York Public Library's Best of the Year
Autostraddle's Best Queer Books of the Year Draws on her scientific training and tribal storytelling to weave a spellbinding tale.--Texas Monthly Little Badger's new genre-bending narrative draws on her heritage and the tradition of story-telling that has informed her worldview.--TIME Undeniably charming.--Tor.com ★ Evokes the timeless feeling of listening to traditional oral storytelling.--Kirkus (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 which absorbs the audience into its world, readers will become invested in reading until the very end.--School Library Connection 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.
Author: Darcie Little Badger
Publisher: Levine Querido
Published: 11/23/2021
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781646140923
Award: Newbery Medal - Honor Book
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee
National Book Award Longlist
Minneapolis Star Tribune Best of the Year
Publishers Weekly's Best of the Year
Kirkus Reviews' Best the Year
Apple's Best of the Year
Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best
New York Public Library's Best of the Year
Autostraddle's Best Queer Books of the Year Draws on her scientific training and tribal storytelling to weave a spellbinding tale.--Texas Monthly Little Badger's new genre-bending narrative draws on her heritage and the tradition of story-telling that has informed her worldview.--TIME Undeniably charming.--Tor.com ★ Evokes the timeless feeling of listening to traditional oral storytelling.--Kirkus (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 which absorbs the audience into its world, readers will become invested in reading until the very end.--School Library Connection 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.
Author: Darcie Little Badger
Publisher: Levine Querido
Published: 11/23/2021
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781646140923
Award: Newbery Medal - Honor Book
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee
About the Author
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.
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