“Blends humor, emotional clarity, and wild imagination to bring life to stories about identity, power, and human nature.” — Arianna Rebolini, Buzzfeed
Shirley Jackson Award Winner
ALA Rainbow Book List.
Georgia Peach Book Award Nominee.
Florida Teens Read Award Nominee.
Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year.
ABC Best Books for Young Readers.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Mythopoeic, Hugo, & Locus award finalist.
Shipping copies with a signed bookplate.
WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER’S AWARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER’S INDIGENOUS WRITER’S PRIZE 2018
WINNER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD 2018
WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARD FOR INDIGENOUS WRITING 2019
Otherwise Honor List
Locus Notable Books
World Fantasy Award finalist
British Fantasy Award finalist
Locus Award finalist
NPR Best Books of 2018
Neukom Institute Debut Literary Arts Award shortlist 2019
Nominated for the Dublin Literary Award 2019
Shortlisted for the Reading Women Award 2018
Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2018
Shortlisted for the ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writers 2018
Winner of the Norma K Hemming and the Tin Duck Awards
Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2017
Longlisted for the Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction 2018
Shortlisted for the Aurealis Award 2017
Nominated for Ditmar Award 2018
Runner Up for the MUD Literary Prize
Publishers Weekly Big Indie Books of Fall 2018
Locus Recommended Reading List
Neukom Institute Debut Literary Arts Award shortlist
Philip K. Dick Award finalist
Booklist Top 10 Debut SF&F
Locus Recommended Reading List
World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2018
“An extraordinary novel.”
— Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award
Philip K. Dick Award finalist
Locus Recommended Reading List
B&N, Year’s Best Collections
Publishers Weekly Top 10 SF, Fantasy & Horror Spring:
Winner of the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Debut Speculative Fiction
Chicago Review of Books Best Books of the Year
“A vitality to the voice and a weirdness that, while not always controlled or intentional, is highly appealing for just that reason.”
— Charles Yu, New York Times Book Review
Locus Recommended Reading