“A book that you want to share with everyone you know and one that you are desperate to keep in your own possession. A masterful debut and a new and thrilling voice for readers across the globe.”—Sarah Jessica Parker

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August 3-8, 2025 — teaching POV workshop at Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown
Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award judge for fiction
taught at 2023 Tin House Summer Workshop
2023 Tribal College Journal guest editor and creative writing contest judge
awarded a 2023 Creative Capital “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Award

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Longlisted for The Dublin Literary Award
Longlisted for The Story Prize
Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Longlisted for the 2021 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s 2020 First Novel Prize
Longlisted for The Reading the West Award for Adult Fiction
One of NPR’s Best Books of 2020
One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction for 2020
One of Time Magazine’s Must-Read Books of 2020
Named a Publishers Weekly best book of 2020 for fiction
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2020
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
A Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education Best Native Book of 2020
An Indies Introduce, Indie Next, and LibraryReads Pick