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Author Visit with Darcie Little Badger (Virtual)
Wednesday, November 10
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Wilmette Public Library
Zoom Adult/TeenJoin us for a virtual discussion with YA author Darcie Little Badger, author of Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to Earth.
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy novels of all time and is a Nebula, Ignyte, Locus and Lodestar finalist. In a starred review, Kirkus magazine called it "[a] fast-paced whodunit set in a contemporary world like our own, this is a creative fusion of Indigenous cultural influences and supernatural fantasy. A brilliant, engaging debut...." Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, is coming November 23, 2021 (postponed from its original October date) and was just placed on the longlist for the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Darcie’s short fiction, nonfiction and comics have appeared in multiple places, including Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and The Dark.
Learn more about Darcie Little Badger and her books here.
A Q & A will follow the author’s presentation, and members of the Zoom audience will be invited to submit written questions during the program.
If you are interested in purchasing a copy of A Snake Falls to Earth, please support our local independent bookstore, The Book Stall. A limited number of signed bookplates are available.
The event is free and open to the public, but those interested in attending must register. All who register to attend will receive a Zoom link for the event prior to the start of the program.
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From the south: Go north on Green Bay Road. Turn left on Wilmette Ave. Turn right on Park Ave. Library is located on the corner of Wilmette Ave. and Park Ave. Parking lot is on the north side of the building.
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