The missing morningstar : and other stories / Stacie Shannon Denetsosie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Denetsosie, Stacie Shannon, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Missing morningstar (Compilation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Fiction.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Colonization--Psychological aspects--Fiction.

Genre:

short stories.

Fiction.

Short stories.

Fiction

Short stories

Physical Description:

148 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Torrey House Press edition.

Other Title:

Pre-publication title: Indigenous odysseys

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City [Utah] : Torrey House Press, 2023.

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" -- Publisher's description.

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.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Burt fund bookplate.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Cited in:

Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (December 20, 2023) https://5019.sydneyplus.com/Heard_Museum_ArgusNET_Final/Portal.aspx

ISBN:

9781948814850

1948814854

OCLC:

1371278409