sentences:  "Publishers Weekly", "Booklist", and "Quill & Quire" all gave the book starred reviews.The novel won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, was nominated for a Sunburst Award and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Québec.Smith published his debut, the story collection "Bang Crunch", in 2007 in Canada and in 2008 in the US and the UK.