Alias Grace is already becoming one of my favorite books in the series. You have the titular character, Grace Marks, who is a member of an insane asylum. But the interesting thing is that for the 70 pages or so, Grace seems so normal. When we tend to portray people who are insane, people tend to think about some guy screaming to himself while running around and just being an absolute cartoon. Grace however is very cognizant and very self aware of her surroundings and people who she interact with. For instance, while meeting the Doctor for the first time, she could immediately sense that he had motives, and so deliberately lied about what she was feeling and what she thought so she could stay under the radar. Grace even looks at all of the other patients and can tell you which ones are really truly insane and which ones are just seasonally insane. It’s a look into the mind of the character, and if you had no prior knowledge about the character or if the book didn’t tell you first hand why she was in the asylum, you probably wouldn’t even realized that she had murdered someone. She seems so normal if not a little bit anxious and skittish.