Awards
- Whiting Writers' Award
- Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX
- Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, for her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
- PEN/Hemingway Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
- Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
- California Book Award first fiction award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers'
- Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists
- California Book Award for The Vagrants
- The New Yorker's 20 under 40
- MacArthur Foundation fellow
- Story Prize finalist for Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
- She was shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Vagrants, praised by the eventual winner Colum McCann as "crossing all kinds of territories, it's poetic and brave, a great charge of a novel".
- She was shortlisted for the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for Gold Boy, Emerald Girl.
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