A snake falls to earth book5/11/2023 Ellie uses her ability to summon the ghosts of animals to help her investigate the murder of her cousin, who died in the Rio Grande Valley (where the author made countless childhood visits to see her grandmother in McAllen). Little Badger, now 34, had become a published novelist just two months earlier.Įlatsoe is a haunting read, an emotional young-adult ghost story about Ellie, a seventeen-year-old girl who, like Little Badger herself, is a member of the Lipan Apache tribe of Texas (which counts about 4,300 registered members). Elatsoe landed on the magazine’s October 2020 list of the hundred best fantasy books of all time, slotted right in alongside Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Fellowship of the Ring, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Not only did the book make best-of-the-year lists from BookPage, Buzzfeed, Kirkus, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and Tor, but a panel assembled by Time that included the giants of the genre-Diana Gabaldon, Neil Gaiman, N. K. It’s not unusual for a first-time novelist to receive accolades for their debut, but the superlatives Darcie Little Badger earned for her young-adult fantasy novel, Elatsoe-published last year during the pandemic-surpassed even her wildest dreams.
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