Awards
Winner of the 1998 BOMC Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction
One of Glamour's three Best Novels of the Year by a New Writer
One of the School Library Journal's 23 Best Adult Books for the Young Adult
One of the Los Angeles Times's Best Books of 1998
Winner of an Alex Award from the American Library Association for one of the top ten adult books for the teenager
Finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award