"Eyes Wide Open" is a tapestry of emotional journeys that uses the lens of magical realism to explore mental health and societal constructs. Eschewing the traditional narrative beats of likeable characters and happy endings, the novel instead offers a deep dive into the human psyche, articulating the ways that family and societal pressures intersect in shaping individual experiences.

Alexander’s feet were on the ground, but his mind was somewhere between the clouds and the sky where melancholy, sorrow, and dreams condensed together to fall unpredictably on the everyday whirl of life. Cold and warm, dance and stillness, reason and confusion, rush and tranquillity. For him, this was the duality of life’s concerning insignificances.