Literary Fiction · MelancholicA young Navajo man and Slim Girl, in the Southwest of 1915
Laughing Boy
A young Navajo silversmith and a woman shaped by the boarding schools
Laughing Boy is set among the Navajo in the Southwestern United States in 1915. Laughing Boy, a young Navajo man, seeks to earn the respect of his tribe as an adult. His relationship with Slim Girl, a mysterious young woman whose past in federal Indian boarding schools creates complications, tests his family's views.
More about this book
Who
Laughing Boy and Slim Girl.
World
The Navajo Southwest in 1915, in a place known as T'o Tlakai.
What makes it different
It was La Farge's first novel and won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize. It was also published as an Armed Services Edition during World War II.
Feel
Lyrical and tragic.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Behind the book
The novel is set in 1915, the year the first motorized vehicle was driven into Native American territory.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Laughing BoyWikipedia