Rosita dies before anything can be clarified, and Nina learns soon after that Rosita lived for more than 150 years. The app cannot process Lipan (or any other Indigenous language), so the story is mangled and unintelligible. When Rosita is on her deathbed in the hospital, she tells Nina a story in the Lipan language, interspersed with Spanish, that Nina relies on a translation app to understand.

Richie’s mother and great-grandmother (Nina’s grandmother and her great-great-grandmother, Rosita) live on land that has been in the family for generations. Her father runs the family bookstore by himself while her mother is away for months at a time on scientific surveys on the ocean. The novel follows Nina from age nine to age 16. Nina Arroyo is a Lipan Apache girl living in Texas with her mother, Alicia, and her father, Richie. Page numbers may differ slightly in other versions.Ĭontent Warning: This guide contains references to colonialism and the genocide of Indigenous Americans. This guide uses the Levine Querido eBook version of A Snake Falls to Earth, formatted for Nook. In literature, Indigenous Futurism usually incorporates elements of fantasy and/or science fiction. (Oct.Published in 2021, A Snake Falls to Earth is a work of Indigenous Futurism, an artistic movement that centers Indigenous knowledge and perspectives.

Fun, imaginative, and deeply immersive, this story will be long in the minds of readers. But when Ami grows ill, Oli knows the cure is on Earth-where he meets and helps Nina with her own problems. Oli, a cottonmouth snake of the Reflecting World, has recently left his mother’s home and made friends in wolf sisters Rise and Reign as well as sweet, silent frog Ami. With a basis in Apache stories, this sharply told speculative novel details Nina’s lineage from her great-great-grandmother Rosita, who has just passed away her grandmother, who’s inherited some of her Reflecting World ancestors’ healing powers and her bookstore-owning father, who distributes books to Reflecting World visitors in human form. The second novel by Lipan Apache author Little Badger ( Elatsoe) is a smartly intertwined, shifting-perspective story about two characters in worlds that diverged thousands of years ago: Earth-living Nina, who is nine, and Reflecting World–living Oli, 15.

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