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.