The novel went on to win the 2022 Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award, the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize. The book was named one of the best books of 2021 by The Washington Post, National Public Radio, Esquire and President Obama. The audiobook version of the novel won the 2022 Audie Award for Fiction.
