Meet the Cast
Miles Halter
Miles wants his Great Perhaps, but we never really know what he envisions as his Great Perhaps and whether the boarding school of Culver Creek lives up to his expectations. Keep in mind, he's a jun...
Alaska Young
Alaska remains a perpetual mystery in this book, both to Miles and to us as readers. She's also the most complex character, though her life ends in tragedy. So it's fitting that the last words Alas...
Chip "The Colonel" Martin
The Colonel is aptly named: although he's short and stocky, he's got a gift for leading others and a charisma that brings the entire social network at the Creek together at the end of the book.Poor...
Takumi Hikohito
Even though he isn't in every scene of the book, Takumi plays a pretty important role in Miles's life and in Alaska's death, though we don't find out about his participation in letting her go until...
Lara Buterskaya
Lara is a cutie, though unfortunately for her she doesn't compare to Alaska in Miles's mind. From Romania and with a cute accent to boot, Lara likes likes Miles. Alaska notices this when Lara tries...
Minor Characters
Dolores MartinDolores, the Colonel's mom, never really had an easy life (raising a kid with a deadbeat will do that to a life), but that doesn't stop her from being one of the more optimistic chara...