Awards
- Kiriyama Prize
- Time Magazine Asia Book of The Year
- Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association – Nonfiction Award
- Montana Honor Book Award
- Borders Bookstore Original Voices Selection
- Banff Mountain Festival Book Award Finalist
- 2007 Nonfiction Runner-Up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
- People Magazine – Critics Choice
- Publisher's Weekly – Starred Review
- Mom's Choice Award 2009
- 2009 Italy: Premio Gambrinus “Giuseppe Mazzotti"
- Powell Book's Puddly Award (nonfiction), Portland
- 2010 The Christopher Award: "To affirm the highest values of the human spirit"
- 2010 The Mason Award - Extraordinary contribution in literature (George Mason University DC)
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