The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories Potawatomi adapted for young adults from

adapted for young adults from the adult nonfiction book of the same name

When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020

three comrades guerrilla-tap maples in an upper middle-class neighbourhood

but Betsy recalls the words her father spoke to her at Sugar Falls--words that give her the resilience

Angelique worked as a domestic servant for a Riggs family friend

The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories Potawatomi adapted for young adults fromIn The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie 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.