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Darcie Little Badger

A Snake Falls to Earth Audio CD – Nov. 23 2021

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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 ofthe 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 some will kill to keep them apart.

Darcie Little Badger introduced herself to the world with Elatsoe. In A Snake Falls to Earth, she draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to weave another unforgettable tale of monsters, magic, and family.

It is not to be missed.

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Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
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Nov. 23 2021
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979-8200760343
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B2BCKN33
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition (Nov. 23 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Audio CD ‏ : ‎ 1 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8200760343
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 234 g

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Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy novels of all time. Darcie's short fiction, nonfiction and comics have appeared in multiple places, including Marvel's Voices: Indigenous Voices #1, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and The Dark.

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Absolutely incredible book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 15, 2022

Beautiful storytelling. Don't let the label of "YA fiction" fool you, it doesn't matter what your age is. It's a great book. I don't leave book reviews, I've read thousands of books and I've probably left 3 reviews ever, so seriously? It's worth the read. I promise.

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LA in Dallas

Apache spirits save the world, or at least a bit of Texas

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2022

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A Snake Falls to Earth caught my interest by beginning with a linguistic mystery. Nina Aroyo is one of the two principle protagonists of A Snake Falls to Earth. Her great^n-grandmother Rosita ("great^n" means I'm not exactly sure how many "greats" belong there) tells Nina a story told her by her (Rosita's) mother. Although Rosita and Nina are Lipan Apache, they don't share a common language. Rosita speaks Spanish and Nina English. Therefore Nina uses a translation app on her phone to understand the story. Well, most of the story shows up as gibberish on the app. It turns out that Rosita memorized the sound of the story, as told her in Lipan Apache, which the translation app doesn't understand. With the help of her mother Alicia, who happens to be a translator and linguist, Nina constructs a partial key based on Lipan and Jicarilla Apache and also Navajo, which (I did not know this) is a related language. Rosita's story is a story from Apache folklore.

Apache folklore as here depicted is peopled by animal spirits, who have "true forms", which are animals, and "false forms", which resemble humans. The second protagonist, Oli, is one of these: he's a cottonmouth snake. The spirits live in a world that is mostly separate from Earth but is linked to it. After some initial coming-of-age type adventures, Oli settles comfortably in the spirit world, where he makes friends of some of the other animals. One of his friends falls ill, and the healer tells him the problem is on Earth. Oli finds a way to travel to Earth, where he and Nina help each other out.

I enjoyed this introduction to Apache folklore, about which I knew almost nothing. (And therefore I can say nothing about how accurate a representation of that folklore it is.) It was also an entertaining story, probably well targeted for Middle Grades.

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Old legends in a modern world

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 11, 2022

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I found the first half of this book interesting but slow to read. At about the 50 percent mark when the two worlds in the story begin to connect everything cam alive for me.

The little girl grown to a teenager is recording tales her great grandma told her.in a strange mixture of two American Indian tribal languages and Spanish. The Spanish is not so hard to figure out but there are no dictionaries for Lipan and the other tribal language but with much research she pieces together the story of animals with human forms. These creatures used to live on earth with regular humans. Something happened and now all the animals with human forms live in a pseudo earth but can travel back to earth for a short time.

With great surprise Nina, the girl, welcomes a snake human form named Oli, twin foxes and a hawk named Brightness. They have come to save an nearly extinct species of toad so their friend Eli a tiny dying toad can live.

Meanwhile a hurricane is bearing down and about to destroy Grandma's house and property where the toads used to live. Will this strange crew be able to save Grandma and her property and the toads of Texas?

A good read and makes you want to hear the continuing adventures of Oli, Risk and Reign the foxes and Brightness and the mockingbird who can shape shift into many different forms.

5 people found this helpful

Amy W.

Sweet

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 8, 2022

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This book somehow made a seamless transition from legend to real life story look easy and right as rain. I just loved the whole
trip. Kittens, wolves, snakes, frogs, catfish, coyotes, and people all learned to get along; wish the wider world could follow their lead.
This is a lovely second book by an American writer who redefines American to include Apache culture, just as it should. It's a pleasure to read and even an action epic (roping a tornado, lol), so I'm glad my library sponsored it as a read together book.

3 people found this helpful

crr

Another wonderful story from Darcie Little Badger

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2022

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A sad, sweet and uplifting story.I am so happy to have found Darcie Little Badger. It is marketed as YA, but I am a 66 yr old woman and I loved it.

Looking forward to what comes next!

8 people found this helpful

DRDee

creativity embodied (pun intended)!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2022

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Giving no spoilers, I can say that the storyline and characters are interwoven with a tapestry of Native American folklore. The author accomplishes this with skill and an easy grace that allows any and all to enjoy the journey.
Definitely suitable for readers 11 and older, with no subjects or scenes that should be of concern to a parent. It would be a great story to share with a younger reader (upper elementary or older).

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