Awards and Nominations
- Shortlisted for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- 2002 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award for Honor Books
- Short listed for National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
- Short Listed for LA Times Book Prize
- New York Times Editor's Choice 2001
- Salon Book Award 2001
- Los Angeles Times Best of 2001
- Newsweek, The Best Fiction of 2001
- USA Today, Best Books of 2001
- The Village Voice, the Lit Parade, 2001
- Time Out (UK) Books of the Year
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