Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story

"I am not a Navajo, nor am I an American, but the Navajos are my people."This novel, set in the American southwest of 1915, is the 1930 Pulitzer-prize winning novel. As the title implies, it is in fac...

I have stalled for a few days now before writing this review. Been extra busy in real life for one thing, but also because after I do a review, I have to acknowledge to myself that the book I have jus...

When I realized this book was about Native Americans, I almost put it down.Laughing Boy was part of my project to read every Pulitzer winning novel, and I was still fresh from slogging through the “...

I am not sure what comes over the Pulitzer committee sometimes. This book was written by a white person in New Orleans about distant Navajo tribes in Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico. Its protagonists h...

This is a beautiful love story that is gorgeously romantic while being the antithesis of a formulaic romance novel.  Though largely about two Navajo's who fall in love, it's also a love story of t...

It reminded me of Kleenex - the way several diaphanous layers make up one substantial tissue. I think the author wanted me to envision it as a woven Navajo Blanket with lives and stories woven into th...

This Pulitzer Prize winning book for fiction (1930) described the culture of the Southwest in 1915 in an engaging way. La Farge, described how Laughing Boy, a Navajo, met Slim Girl who had been wester...

I loved this book; it is beautifully written. The characters are memorable and I completely identified with them. I loved the bits of Navajo poetry the author included. This is by far my favorite book...

I have a habit of regularly picking up a prize winner as one of my ways of making sure I read a variety of authors. Sometimes I am disappointed or even bored with the result, but more often I am thril...

Interesting, but not quite a true First Peoples voice. ...