The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories

By Stacie Shannon Denetsosie

Book Overview

A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award winner

"Propulsive and complex, this is a
gorgeously written debut."

--KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)

In The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple's search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum. This debut collection grapples with a complex and painful history alongside an inheritance of beauty, ceremony, and storytelling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948814854
• ISBN13: 9781948814850
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Torrey House Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"