Reception

• The Washington Post states that the "portrayal of gritty suffering is as strong as its fantastical elements"

Awards

• It won the first Shirley Jackson Award
  Shirley Jackson Award
  The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented at Readercon, an annual conference on imaginative...
  
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• Shortlisted for the Believer Book Award
  Believer Book Award
  Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by The Believer magazine to novels and story collections the magazine's editors thought were the "strongest and most under-appreciated" of the year. A shortlist and longlist are announced, along with reader's favorites, then a final...
  
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External links

• Full review at the Washington Post
• Bostonist reviews the book