She is the recipient of a Whiting Award and in 2017, Granta Magazine named her to its decennial list of the Best of Young American Novelists.

[5] The Chicago Review of Books noted the careful handling of mental illness in each of the characters, concluding that "the novel raises interesting questions about child rearing, culture, and isolation".

[11] Writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Katherine Coldiron later observed that the collection is "not a particularly juicy or grotesque book" and that it has "a sense of incompleteness," though she concluded that "the prose is so beautiful, and the recollection and description so vivid, that even if it were not mostly about an under-examined condition it would be easy to recommend.

"[12] Ilana Masad, writing for NPR, concluded that the book was "riveting, honest, and courageously allows for complexities in the reality of what living with illness is like".

[14] The Collected Schizophrenias made The New York Times Best Seller list for nonfiction shortly after its release.