"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.
