By Dinétah, whose god-created walls are closed to him by his foster brother Aaron, who attempted to kill him (righteously) over his willingness to engage in rape and exploitation by his white heritage and by his Diné heritage, neither of which give him enough space to build from in the post-Big Water Sixth World and by the gods of the Diné, whom he believes refuse to favor him - and that feeling drives his plan to drown Dinétah. Gideon feels betrayed by almost everything around him. But the most significant widening is that of questions of identity, loyalty, and community - because Maggie's adversary in Storm of Locusts is Gideon, a half-Diné man stolen away from his family to be fostered by Mormons, who calls himself the White Locust and preaches an apocalypse that will flood all of Dinétah while providing safety, salvation, and comfort to his followers.īook Reviews New Collection Asks: What Might The 'People's Future' Look Like? Roanhorse also accomplishes a widening of emotional range, as Maggie begins to allow herself to make friends, especially female friends, and take her place as part of her community when she becomes a mentor and auntie to Ben, a young woman who has clan powers - magic linked to her heritage - like Maggie herself does.

There is a widening of scope, as Roanhorse takes her protagonists outside of Dinétah into the Malpais - what remains of the American Southwest after the Big Water reshaped the world. Widening is a characteristic feature of Storm of Locusts.

She is brittle, cautious, and trying to recover from the personally cataclysmic events of the first book, Trail of Lightning - but Locusts drops her directly into a much wider cataclysm, one which threatens the continued existence of Dinétah, the post-climate-apocalypse Navajo nation which is her home. When Storm of Locusts, the second book in Rebecca Roanhorse's Sixth World series, begins, the monsterslayer Maggie Hoskie has trapped her teacher and first love, the lightning-god Neizghání, under the ground killed (impermanently, but still) her lover, the medicine man Kai, who is avoiding her and reached a careful, exhausted détente with the paramilitary Thirsty Boys, a détente which is verging on friendship. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Storm of Locusts Author Rebecca Roanhorse

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