<p><B>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "A romantic idyll played out in the rhythms and meanings of a vanished Navajo world." &#8212;<I>The Denver Post</I></B><BR /> Laughing Boy is a model member of his tribe. Raised in old traditions, skilled in silver work, and known for his prowess in the wild horse races, he does the Navajos of<I> T'o Tlakai</I> proud. But times are changing. It is 1914, and the first car has just driven into their country. Then, Laughing Boy meets Slim Girl&#8212;and despite her "American" education and the warnings of his family, he gives in to desire and marries her.<BR /> <BR /> As Laughing Boy and Slim Girl settle away from traditional villages&#8212;their different upbringings clashing within both their relationship and the ever-encroaching culture around them&#8212;each of their worlds are thrown into a heart-wrenching turmoil of love, honor, hope, and heritage.<BR /> <BR /> "Compelling in its strength and simplicity, and its fidelity to the deepest impulses of human nature," <I>Laughing Boy</I> is an unprecedented look at both the Navajo culture and the enduring legacy of tradition and loss that all Americans share (<I>The New York Times</I>).

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