20th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards

    Asian American & Pacific Islander Non-Fiction

   2026 Maxy Awards

     Book of the Year

   2026 Next Generation Indie Book Awards

     Category Winner for Autobiography/Biography

    2026 Feathered Quill Book Awards

     Bronze Award for Memoir and Biography

2025 Reviewers Choice Awards

  Gold Award for Classics Memoir/Autobiography/Biography

2025 Memoir Prize for Books

   Category Winner Award for History and Culture

       2020 North Street Book Prize

    Honorable Mention Award      for Creative Nonfiction     

(Advance Reader Copy)

  2019 BookLife Prize

   Quarter Finalist for Memoir                                and Autobiography

    (Manuscript)