But the other one was in a total secondary world that I did invent, you know, because it's fantasy.īut on the other hand, it was inspired by stories that I heard growing up, especially stories about animal people. This was an interesting challenge for me because I was really writing this book from two perspectives, one of them really grounded into, you know, the near-future Earth.
And it's actually pretty magical.įADEL: She starts to suspect that her family has some connection to the reflecting world and the animal people who live in this connected reflecting world. But the more that she learns about the actual content of the story, the more she realizes that it is significant to the history of her family and the way her family is going to survive.
So for Nina, at first it's just a mystery to her. But the problem is that we don't really speak it fluently. So the Lipan language has a lot of holes in it right now, but we're attempting to revitalize it. LITTLE BADGER: So this plot point was actually inspired by some very real issues that Lipan people, including Lipan young adults, are dealing with today in terms of our language. But she has a feeling it's really important, so she goes on a journey to try to translate this story. But it's in Lipan, an Indigenous language that Nina can't understand. She hears a story from her great-great-grandmother, Rosita, right before Rosita dies. I'm so happy to be here.įADEL: I want to start a little bit with the plot with Nina. It's Darcie Little Badger's second novel, and she joins us now. A snake falls to Earth tells their intersecting stories. And he's on his own for the first time, trying to find a home. Then there's a young cottonmouth snake named Oli who lives in a reflecting world, a land of spirits and monsters.
She's a Lipan Apache girl trying to unravel the mystery of who she is and how her great-great-grandmother lived to be more than 150 years old. In the new young adult novel "A Snake Falls To Earth," we meet teenager Nina, who lives in our world.
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