Luminarium has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction:"Bold, ambitious, and dazzling with ideas and narrative energy, Luminarium is a novel that refuses to settle for contrivance as it goes after the hard truths of family life, technology, culture, and urban experience. It is a work that demands and rewards a reader's full engagement. Alex Shakar's many-chambered novel leaves us changed for good." --2011 Fiction Judges