Winner, Edward Lewis Wallant Award
Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award
An Indie Next pick for November 2013
A Barnes & Noble Holiday 2013 Discover Great New Writers Selection
Amazon's New and Notable
"Bookseller Jury Pick" of the ABA Debut Dozen for Fall 2013
A Zoomer Book of the Week (Feb. 2013)
Featured in the Quill & Quire Spring 2013 Preview
"A captivating story, offering at times page-turning thrills and at others a painful meditation on destiny and volition. All too often debut novels stay too close to a writer's own life; it is a great gift to be able to mine family history and flex the imagination to create something that exudes such urgency and brilliance as this memorable book."-Ellah Allfrey, All Things Considered , NPR
"[A] bold, ambitious debut novel."-Tom Lavoie, Shelf Awareness
"This book is worth getting excited about. . . It's most impressive. The voice is like a close third person and you get inside the cadence of the characters in a special way."- Jenn Northington, Book Riot
"Suspenseful, entertaining, and thought provoking epic debut novel."- New York Journal of Books "Raw and ambitious." - Moment Magazine
