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The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories
The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories in Bloomington, MN
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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.
"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.
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