March 2012 – Awarded 21st Century Award by the Chicago Public Library
June 2011 – Selected to be a US Delegate by University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (Life of Discovery–US/China literary exchange)
November 2010 – Shortlisted for the Asian American Literary Award
October 2010 – Selected by New York Magazine’s Sam Anderson for Vulture Recommends
August 2010 – Selected as Theodore Morrison Fellow in Fiction forBread Loaf Writers Conference
June 2010 – Receives fellowship to The MacDowell Colony
May 2010 – Receives Honorable Mention in McSweeney’s Reader Survey 2010
February 2010 – Shortlisted and semi-finalist for 2010 Tournament of Books
January 2010 – Featured in Sunday Book Section of Chicago Sun Times
January 2010 – Shortlisted for 2010 Tournament of Books
December 2009 – Selected for Booklist Editors’ Choice
December 2009 – Longlisted for 2010 Tournament of Books
October 2009 – Wins a Whiting Award
(Select articles about the 2009 Whiting Awards in the NY Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Reader)
September 2009 – Selected as one of Booklist’s Top 10 First Novels
September 2009 – Featured in Amazon’s Omnivoracious
July 2009 – Named “Best New Novelist” by Chicago Magazine
July 2009 – Selected for Amazon’s Best Fiction of 2009 (So Far) list
April 2009 – Shortlisted for Orange Award for New Writers (Read article in the Independent)
April 2009 – Selected for “Spring Reading For Your Bedside Table” by KPBS.org
April 2009 – Selected for “Top Shelf: Recommended Reading” by Book Passage/San Francisco Chronicle
February 2009 – Selected for “Adult Book Picks” by The Spartanburg Herald-Journal
February 2009 – Featured with Kyle Beachy and Frances de Pontes Peebles in Chicago Magazine
January 2009 – Reviewed on Eight Forty-Eight on Chicago Public Radio (Listen)
January 2009 – Selected by Chicago Magazine as a Noteworthy New Release (Read)
January 2009 – Reaches #4 on Denver Post’s Best-Sellers List (Read)
January 2009 – Reaches #5 on SF Chronicle’s Best-Sellers List (Read)
January 2009 – Selected as a “New Talent” in Daily Mail (UK) (Read)
January 2009 – Featured in Time Out Chicago (Read)
January 2009 – Mentioned in Vanity Fair (Hot Type)
January 2009 – Featured in Korea Daily (New York) (Read)
January 2009 – Selected for Amazon’s The Significant Seven – Best of the Month (Read)
January 2009 – Receives four stars and is a People Pick from People Magazine
January 2009 – Selected for New Voices in USA Today (Read)
January 2009 – Featured in Chicago Tribune (Read)
December 2008 – Selected for January 2009 Indie Next List (formerly Book Sense) (Read)
December 2008 – Featured in Writers Recommend section of Poets & Writers (Read)
December 2008 – Selected for Page One in Poets & Writers (Read)
December 2008 – Featured in Glamour magazine as a “Must Do” for January
December 2008 – Featured in Amazon’s Grownup School (Read)
December 2008 – Featured in French magazine Transfuge (Read)
October 2008 – Receives four stars in French Rolling Stone
October 2008 – Receives starred review from Booklist (Read)
October 2008 – Featured in The Bookseller (Read)
September 2008 – Receives starred review from Library Journal
September 2008 – Selected for Festival America in Vincennes, France
September 2008 – Selected for “Moveable Feast” by NAIBA
August 2008 – Featured in Telerama Magazine (FR) (Read)
June 2008 – Publisher’s Weekly (see last page)
May 2008 – Featured on Amazon’s Omnivoracious (Read)
May 2008 – Selected by Book Expo America as an “Emerging Voice”
May 2008 – Selected by Book Expo America for “Editor’s Buzz” panel
Miles from Nowhere 
