
Laughing Boy
Author: Oliver La Farge
Narrator: Oliver Thompson
Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brickell Avenue Publishing
Published: 01/22/2025
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Author: Oliver La Farge
Narrator: Oliver Thompson
Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brickell Avenue Publishing
Published: 01/22/2025
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
"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 fact a love story of sorts. But beyond that, it seems to speak to a time and place when the Navajos wer......more
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 have the emotional maturity of my 11-year-old daughter. The whole thing felt condescending to me. I f......more
Laughing Boy won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930. It was the first Pulitzer winner that dealt with the Native American people, in this case, the Navajo people. It was written by a man who was not a tribal member, but deeply sympathetic to the Navajo people and their way of life. La Farge was an ethnograp......more