“A book that you want to share with everyone you know and one that you are desperate to keep in your own possession. A masterful debut and a new and thrilling voice for readers across the globe.”—Sarah Jessica Parker

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Fountain Bookstore and Chop Suey, independent bookstores in Richmond, VA, have signed copies of Crooked Hallelujah.

Some kjf news:
Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award judge for fiction
teaching at 2023 Tin House Summer Workshop
2023 Tribal College Journal guest editor and creative writing contest judge
awarded a 2023 Creative Capital “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Award
awarded a 2022 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship
awarded a 2021 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award

Crooked Hallelujah news:
Longlisted for The Dublin Literary Award
Longlisted for The Story Prize
Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Longlisted for the 2021 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s 2020 First Novel Prize
Longlisted for The Reading the West Award for Adult Fiction
One of NPR’s Best Books of 2020
One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction for 2020
One of Time Magazine’s Must-Read Books of 2020
Named a Publishers Weekly best book of 2020 for fiction
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2020
New York Times Editors’ Choice
A Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education Best Native Book of 2020
An Indies Introduce, Indie Next, and LibraryReads Pick

Crooked Hallelujah is showing up on lists and I am giddy.
Oprah Magazine’s 31 Native American Authors to Read Right Now
Oprah Magazine’s Best Summer 2020 Books from Authors Around the World
Buzzfeed’s 14 Contemporary Books By Native American Writers To Get Excited About
Texas Highways’ 10 Texas Books That Defined 2020
Book Riot’s 15 of the Most Popular Indigenous Books From 2020
BitchReads: 27 Novels Feminists Should Read in 2020
Ms. Magazine’s Reads for the Rest of Us: Feminist Books Coming Out in 2020
Electric Lit’s 56 Books By Women and Nonbinary Writers of Color to Read in 2020

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