KEYNOTE | Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, award-winning author of The Missing Morningstar, in conversation with Cal Crosby
Sat, Oct 19
|SLCPL Main, Auditorium
Stacie Shannon Denetsosie (Diné) is the author of “The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories,” which was named a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year, was a 2024 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist, and a Gold Foreword INDIES award winner. Cal Crosby is co-owner of The King's English Bookshop.
Time & Location
Oct 19, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
SLCPL Main, Auditorium, 210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84111, USA
About The Event
Join us at the library to close-out the Wasatch Festival of Books with this keynote given by award-winning author Stacie Shannon Denetsosie.
In her book, The Missing Morningstar, 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.The Missing Morningstar has been chosen by the Utah Center for the Book to be included in the “Great Reads from Great Places” list for the 2024 National Book Festival of the Library of Congress.
Stacie Shannon Denetsosie (Diné) is Todích'íí'nii (Bitterwater Clan), born…
Schedule
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Downstairs, Conference Room A
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Kid's Room