Lauren D. Wood’s The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe Reviewed in The Adroit Journal

We are ecstatic to share a new review of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe, the winner of our 2024 Fiction Prize by Lauren D. Woods. The review by Andrew Gretes published in The Adroit Journal offers a thoughtful and nuanced look at Woods’s lyrical and emotionally resonant stories.

Gretes describes the book as “playful” and “inventive, charming, and daring premises.” To then describe it as “gutting.” Focusing on “what grounds these inventive stories is (for lack of a better phrase) the mind-numbing grind of domesticity.”

To read the full review, please visit their website here.