The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories

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2025 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree - A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award Winner In The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confr onts 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. Show more