“Home is a Made-Up Place expertly plumbs the complicated and surprising depths of motherhood and daughterhood while introducing characters who thrill and linger. A tender and exacting debut from an exciting new voice.”

“A poignant and melancholy collection of stories about the constant search for a place to belong.”

“Every story in Ronit Plank’s collection pulls you right into the intimate world of its characters. They are each so beautiful and distinct—the stories and the characters—that I had to remind myself that they were created by one talented mind. Real, raw, and honest, these stories represent what it means to love and lose—in other words, to be human.”

“Stories that traverse the fraught territories between old conflicts and new starts, old patterns and uncomfortable realizations. Peopled by characters who are as complex and compromised as your own family, this is a lucid and compassionate collection by a writer to watch.”

“Plank’s stories are capacious and evocative, filled with the human dynamics that often are not found in popular discourse. The settings are characters unto themselves and the characters are multi-layered, relatable, and fully realized within the pages of this collection…the ones you typically only hear about when someone asks, in hushed tones: ‘did you hear about…?’ Once you read, you’ll be able to say, yes, you have.”