Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction, an Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction, and the Goodreads Choice Awards
Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
An Independent Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick
Awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant
Named a best book of the year by NPR, TIME Magazine, The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, The New York Public Library, The Los Angeles Times, and The Rumpus
A New York Magazine, Harper’s BAZAAR, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Boston Globe, Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, Kirkus Reviews, Observer, Refinery29, and Literary Hub summer book
