How did a white kid like me come to live on the Navajo Reservation in the 1960s? From 1967 to 1971, Jay is a "bilagáana," the Navajo term for white boy, to his new friends and bullies alike on the reservation. Jay's true story follows his misadventures as he navigates being a privileged outsider in a group of both Navajo and white kids who are struggling to understand their place in a world shaped by racism, poverty, and 100 years of federal Indian policy. Decades later, he has come to grips with how those four years there transformed his life..