The Missing Morningstar

Download or read book The Missing Morningstar written by Stacie Shannon Denetsosie and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie 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.