It won the WILLA Award for Contemporary Fiction, was an Editor's Choice selection of the Historical Novel Society, and was named a Southwest Book of the Year, a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for High School Students, and a Mississippi Press/Gulf Coast Live Top Three Books of the Year.
The novel earned several prestigious awards and recognitions, including the WILLA Award for Contemporary Fiction, an Editor's Choice selection by the Historical Novel Society, and top honors from Southwest Book of the Year, School Library Journal, and Mississippi Press/Gulf Coast Live.