<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Award-Winning Collection of Stories That Grapple With What It Means to Belong</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Home is a Made-Up Place</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>&nbsp;invites readers into the lives of people grappling with emotional injuries and confronting the past to become who they wish to be.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Set in NYC New England the Southwest and rural Alaska a single mother fights to protect her son a daughter tries to forget her missing mother a couple struggles to keep a marriage together and their children safe and a family must face the truth about their father.</p><p><br></p><p>Bracing and intimate&nbsp;<em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Home is a Made-Up Place</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>&nbsp;is a collection of stories about fighting for personal power recognizing the difference between what can and cannot be changed and the pull of familial attachments despite the toll they might take.</span></p>