Darcie Little Badger's A Snake Falls to Earth
It wasn’t planned to spend thanksgiving weekend reading a book by an indigenous author (I actually assumed I’d have finished this before thanksgiving, but I just didn’t do a ton of reading this past week), but now I feel like I should have planned that and will do that going forward. ANYWAY this was another awesome book by Little Badger, about young Nina, a Lipan Apache girl growing up in the semi-near future, interested in storytelling, and specifically in understanding the stories of animal people told by her great-grandmother; and Oli, one of the aforementioned animal people, a young snake setting out to try and be independent (I was very wussy about this book and kept putting it down as Oli got into scrapes—he loses the blanket his mother gave him!!—but a review assured me he soon makes friends and has more /fun/ scrapes, so I got back into it). Eventually these two characters intersect and then things start to get really good, as they all try to save a friend and a home. Y’all, this was so good and hopeful even as it deals with the ravages of climate change and creepy people hunting animal people. I loved this. A.
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