The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories -- Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Paperback

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.

Author: Stacie Shannon Denetsosie
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Published: 09/12/2023
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781948814850

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/03/2023
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2023
Booklist 08/01/2023 pg. 24
Foreword 08/27/2023

About the Author
Stacie Denetsosie is a member of the Navajo Nation and her clans are Todích'íí'nii (Bitterwater) and born for Naakaii Dine'é (Mexican). Her work has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Scribendi, and Phoebe. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is a contributor to the Torrey House anthology Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild. She lives in Logan, Utah.