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.

Author: Stacie Shannon Denetsosie
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Published: 09/12/2023
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781948814850


Award: 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Gold Medal Winner - Short Stories