Laughing Boy

Oliver La Farge's Laughing Boy is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that tells the story of a young Navajo man, Laughing Boy, who lives a traditional life of craftsmanship, spirituality, and tribal customs in the American Southwest of the early 20th century. When he meets Slim Girl, a woman of Navajo descent educated in a government boarding school and shaped by white American values, he is both enchanted and challenged by her.

Their relationship unfolds as both a romance and a cultural reckoni...