Winner-kentucky novel of the year, 2003 winner-award for special achievement from fellowship of southern writers nominee-southern book critics circle prize nominee-booksense book of the year (longlist) "So it is that vin...Winner-kentucky novel of the year, 2003 winner-award for special achievement from fellowship of southern writers nominee-southern book critics circle prize nominee-booksense book of the year (longlist) "So it is that vine, cherokee-born and raised in the early 1900s, trains her eye on a young white man, forsaking her family and their homeland to settle in With Saul's people: h.