Both meanings are perfectly reflected in B.A. The Oxford Living Dictionaries define 'fear' as 'an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm' ('Fear'), adding that 'fear for' is 'a feeling of anxiety concerning the outcome of something or the safety of someone' ('Fear'). 'Fear' is a word that seems to be quite simple, but can provoke very serious considerations when looked at more closely. Paris's 'Behind Closed Doors:' it is a book that tells a story about the way fear can saturate human lives, nourish or ruin them, but it is also a story about looking the fear in the face and overcoming it. So, 'fear' would clearly be the word to define B.A. This is precisely what 'Behind Closed Doors' does - it looks fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt's famous quote runs, 'you gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face' ('Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes'). But, as it becomes obvious as the plot progresses, Grace is also an example of what a woman can do when she is determined to overcome her fear for the sake of a loved one.

Muriel Dobbin from The Washington Times, calls Grace, the protagonist, 'an example of what a frightened woman can be reduced to' (Dobbin). Scarier than any horror with demons and monsters' (May). As one of the reviewers, Emily May puts it, 'this is a truly frightening book, a disturbing book. The book does not contain any blood-thirsty sharks, alien monsters or evil spirits, the action takes place in a suburban home of a 'perfect' couple with a fitting family name - the Angels, but it offers the readers all possible shades of fear - from mild, ordinary anxiety to intense, paralyzing dread.

Paris's debut novel 'Behind Closed Doors' (2016). All thrillers are built on eliciting the emotion of fear from the reader by building up the suspense, this is exactly how thrillers work, yet, very few of them are such an honest, many-sided and detailed exploration of fear as B.A.

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