a snake falls to earth darcie little badger

Nina’s story begins at her twice-great grandmother Rosita’s hospital bedside when she’s nine years old. – p.3, great-great grandmother Rosita to Nina, aged 9Ī Snake Falls to Earth is the story about how two teenagers and their worlds intersect at the crossroads of conservation and disaster. It also centres the ways climate change affects indigenous peoples, their homelands and the animals that live on those lands and shows how people for conservation in the midst of climate chaos. From the first pages, A Snake Falls to Earth features women and girls passing on and preserving their people’s stories. The theme was “The Role of Indigenous Women in the Preservation and Transmission of Traditional Knowledge”. What I found was a novel that perfectly encapsulates the central theme for this year’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous People which was celebrated on August 9 th this year. I approached A Snake Falls to Earth from this perspective, curious about what adventures a fallen snake may have on Earth.

The only one I can remember was about a lizard that fell to Earth from the Animal World in the sky.

When I was a child, someone had given me a calendar filled with indigenous stories. But then I noticed that she has since published another novel that has been rapidly racking up awards and critical acclaim. While searching for September’s book, I decided to search for Little Badger, originally intending to review Elatsoe. Later, I co-read the Love After the End anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead with Angela of the Literature Science Alliance which featured her story post-climate change apocalyptic short story “Story For a Bottle”, which was one of my favourites in the collection. I have been hearing the name Darcie Little Badger floating around the literary landscape for about two years now, ever since her first novel Elatsoe was listed in Time Magazine’s collection of the 100 best fantasy books of all time. Sometimes the perfect book just happens to find you, ticking all the boxes you want for a review even before you knew those boxes needed to be ticked. Originally published in the Sunday, September 4th, 2022 edition of the Stabroek News

A snake falls to earth darcie little badger