Winner of the 2024 Autumn House Fiction Prize, these lyrical stories invite us to question the stories we tell ourselves. A wife finds herself shrinking in her house; a mother recalls the day when her infant daughter survives an encounter with a bear; and, inside her lover’s heart, a woman discovers a secret nightclub populated by the women he’s loved and left. "The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe" urges us to contemplate how we can escape loneliness and live on our own terms.