2020 | National Book Awards Finalist for Fiction
2019 | Award of Merit for the Short Story, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2012 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2012 | Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist
2012 | National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
2010 | Pulitzer Prize finalist
2005 | Arthur C. Clark Award shortlist
2003 | PEN Center USA Award for Fiction