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In her funniest, brashest, and most charming moments—when she's dialing room service with...
Naïve, romantic, and an active fantasist, Jeannine is the youngest of the four alter egos....
Fanged, clawed, and fond of dressing all in black, Jael is the last of the four alter-egos to...
The first of the three men who hit on Janet during the party on Riverside Drive, Ewing is "sharp,...
When Joanna takes Janet to the party on Riverside Drive, all of the other women in the room are...
The second of the three men who hit on Janet during the party on Riverside Drive, Ginger...
Of the three men who hit on Janet during the party on Riverside Drive, the Host is the most...
The most complex of all the novel's minor characters, and the only other person who shares...
One of the guests at the party at Riverside Drive, this guy is about as charming as an ingrown...
Janet is interviewed by multiple people in Joanna's and Jeannine's worlds. Some of them are...
Mrs. Wilding worked as a librarian when Laura was young, and she worries that Laura's abnormal...
As a member of the Belin clan (there are eighteen of them), Chilia Ysayeson is part of Janet's...
The daughter of Chilia Ysayeson, Dorothy appears in the novel just long enough to teach us...
Every civilization needs a great philosopher or two, and Dunyasha Bernadetteson is Whileaway's....
As another member of the Belin clan, Elena Twason is also part of Janet's kinship web. She is...
Another member of the Belin clan, Etsuko is likewise part of Janet's kinship web. We don't know...
Vittoria is Janet's wife, and the "other mother" of their daughter, Yuriko. She's an intelligent,...
While Joanna visits Whileaway, she spends about three weeks living in the large home shared by...
Yuriko is Janet and Vittoria's daughter—one of two, in fact. Janet bore her and gave birth...
Mrs. Allison is Jeannine's co-worker at the public library. We don't learn very much about her...
Cal is Jeannine's boyfriend. He's a hum-drum, mostly harmless sort, except for the fact that he...
Jeannine's sister-in-law Eileen wants two things in life: to be a good wife and to be a good...
Like Mrs. Wilding, Jeannine's mother is a near-perfect portrait of domestic femininity. Even...
Jeannine dates Frank casually during her vacation in the Poconos. Like Cal, he calls Jeannine...
Mr. Frosty seems like a pretty cute little guy, even though Cal likes to call him The Blotchy...
As the old, unmarried woman who lives in the apartment below Jeannine's, Little Miss Spry appears...
This poor guy vanishes from Jeannine's Earth when Janet Evason appears in it, and promptly turns...
Anna is one of Jael's Manland contacts, a "half-changed" who retains the male body with which he...
We don't ever learn what this creep is the boss of, but clearly he's some kind of big-shot. He's...
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee, greenest state in the Land of the Free, raised in the woods...
Lenny doesn't appear in the novel for very long; he's one of the Manland guards hanging around at...
Natalie is the wife of the Manland Boss whom Jael assassinates. She's a "changed" Manlander,...