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Book

The missing morningstar : and other stories

Call Number

  • FICTION DENE (CEN, OSH, POW)

Edition

First Torrey House Press edition.

Publication Information

Salt Lake City : Torrey House Press, 2023.

Physical Description

148 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"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" --

Contents

  • Dormant
  • The Casket in the backseat
  • Wool dolls
  • Reservation state of mind
  • Conception
  • Under the porchway
  • The Sheep is a body of knowledge
  • Snow bath season
  • The Missing morningstar.

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