The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Woods, Lauren D.

The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe

Featured on The Millions' Great Fall 2025 Book PreviewWinner of the 2024 Autumn House Fiction Prize, these...
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Author: Lauren D. Woods
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The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Woods, Lauren D.

The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe

$28.99

The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe

$28.99
Author: Lauren D. Woods
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Featured on The Millions' Great Fall 2025 Book Preview


Winner of the 2024 Autumn House Fiction Prize, these lyrical, haunting stories invite us to question the stories we tell ourselves and to imagine other paths--joyful, whimsical, even absurd--through the world.

A wife finds herself literally shrinking in her house, day by day; a mother recalls the surreal day when her infant daughter survives a close encounter with a bear; and, inside her lover's heart, a woman discovers a secret nightclub populated by all the women he's loved and left.

In the worlds, Woods conjures, childhood memories ripple through adult lives, and characters test the limits of their self-created realities. The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe urges us to contemplate how we can escape loneliness and heartbreak and live on our own terms.



Author: Lauren D. Woods
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Published: 10/21/2025
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781637681091


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2025

About the Author
Lauren D. Woods, originally from the Dallas area, now lives and writes in Washington, DC, where she was a 2024 Washington, DC Arts and Humanities Fellow for Fiction. Her first book, The Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe, won the 2024 Autumn House Press Fiction Prize and her writing has appeared in the top ten spotlighted stories in The Best Small Fictions, as well as The Antioch Review, The Normal School, Passages North, Hayden's Ferry Review, Red Rock Review, Southern Humanities Review, and Lunch Ticket, among others. Lauren works in consulting and lives with her husband, four children, two cats, and a guinea pig.

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