I don’t know yet how to comprehend this. The National Book Award—and that kid from the desert? How? How? It will take a while to understand, probably. 🧿🧿🧿In the meantime, photos: the first by the incredible and incredibly kind @beowulfsheehan courtesy of the @nationalbookfoundation which I think captures the utter Punjabi-ness of my reaction to winning. Which is to say I was in my feels. Fair considering the tears I have evilly stolen from my lovely readers. Also: my incredible, awesome team (tagged): @machinista @therrascal @caseyrmcintyre @shantaroo @jenloja, Gretchen During, and Simone Roberts-Payne. I don’t understand how to upload a video of acceptance speech but the TL;DR is that I basically howled through the whole thing with some words also. My son kindly transcribed it for me since I went off script a bunch so that is here too. You can swipe to see. Thank you again for the love. I am grateful. More pics soon and deep love to my fellow nominees, who inspired me with their kindness and words. ❤️❤️🧿🧿