Laughing Boy is a love story haunting in its poignancy, a drama of a Native American culture struggling to survive amid the corruptions of an alien civilization. Above all, the story of Laughing Boy and Slim Girl penetrates as has no other novel to the very core of the Indian psyche and lifestyle, a portrayal that reveals a passionate but gentle, savage but sympathetic world of thought and feeling. Set in the untamed Navajo country of the great Southwest, Laughing Boy is a timeless American classic.