Owner's Manual: Stories of Men and Love and Parts and Labor in Bloomington, MN

The stories comprising Owner's Manual have won over thirty national and international awards, including The University of Memphis' River City Fiction Award; Western Washington University's Tobias Wolff Award; The Bridport Arts Centre's Bridport Prize; The Society for the Study of the American Short Story's national literary award; The University of Nebraska-Omaha's TNR Award in Fiction; The Hindman Foundation's H.E. Francis Literary Award; George Mason University's Phoebe Winter Fiction Award; The Dana Foundation's Dana Award in Fiction; The Illinois Arts Council's Literary Award; Fairfield University's Dogwood Prize in Fiction; the Loft Literary Center's Speakeasy Prize in Prose; Swink Magazine's Editors' Award for Emerging Writers; The University of Virginia's Meridian Editors Prize in Fiction; The University of Missouri's Missouri Review Editors Award for Fiction; and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs' Writers Scholarship Award.