From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story

The Diné, or Navajo, creation story says there were four worlds before this, the Glittering World. For the present—day Diné this is a world of glittering technology and influences from outside the sacred land entrusted to them by the Holy People. From the Glittering World conveys in vivid language how a contemporary Diné writer experiences this world as a mingling of the profoundly traditional with the sometimes jarringly, sometimes alluringly new.

"Throughout the book, Morris’s command of a...