SuitabookWorlds Behind Her Eyelids
Alexa Lee
- Reading
- Before reading, discuss whether imaginative escape can be helpful and when it might become risky. During reading, notice how the narrative signals changes between worlds and how Grace responds to them.
- Themes
- Escape and coping: Grace repeatedly retreats into imagined experiences when reality is hard to deal with. The story appears to explore both the comfort and complications of escape, rather than establishing a wholly positive or negative judgement.
- Reality and imagined worlds: Grace leads a double life involving ordinary teenage experience, imagined travel with Mitch and other worlds. The book does not clearly resolve its stance on this.
- Worth knowing
- The book appears to include a strained parent–child relationship, graveyard desecration, pursuit by threatening people, shadowy activity and unsettling encounters in other worlds. The intensity and detail of these elements remain unclear.