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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| The young woman writer | "Epilogue: Women Like Us" focuses on a young female writer and her connection to her ancestors. Read More |
| Caroline | In "Caroline's Wedding," Caroline is about to marry a non-Haitian man. Her mother disapproves of this. Read More |
| The female narrator | The female narrator in "Children of the Sea" writes letters to her lover, the male narrator. Read More |
| Guy | In "A Wall of Fire Rising," Guy dreams of flying a hot air balloon owned by the people he works for. He flies it but falls from it and dies. Read More |
| Josephine | Josephine in "Nineteen Thirty-Seven" was born on the day her mother experienced a massacre of Haitian workers by Dominican soldiers. Read More |
| Lamort | Lamort in "The Missing Peace" is a teenage girl who dreams of adventure. She is inspired after meeting an American journalist. Read More |
| Marie | In "Between the Pool and the Gardenias," Marie is a maid who finds a dead baby and treats it as if it were her own and alive. Read More |
| Princesse | In "Seeing Things Simply," Princesse serves as a nude model for Catherine's paintings. The experience inspires her to become a painter. Read More |
| The prostitute | The prostitute in "Night Women" serves male visitors throughout the night while her young son sleeps nearby. She hopes that her son does not wake up. Read More |
| Suzette | Suzette is a Haitian American woman in "New York Day Women" who lives in New York City. Read More |
| Catherine | Catherine from "Seeing Things Simply" is a painter from Guadeloupe who paints Princesse nude. She gives Princesse a portrait and inspires her to become a painter. |
| Celianne | Celianne is a pregnant woman in "Children of the Sea" who recounts being raped by soldiers. She gives birth on the boat she is on while trying to escape from Haiti. |
| The Dominican | The Dominican in "Between the Pool and the Gardenias" is a pool cleaner who calls the police when he suspects Marie of killing the baby she found in the street. Marie claims that she once slept with the Dominican. |
| Emilie Gallant | Emilie Gallant from "The Missing Peace" is an American journalist whose independence inspires Lamort. |
| Eric | Eric is the non-Haitian man who marries Caroline in "Caroline's Wedding." Caroline's mother does not approve of her daughter marrying someone from outside of Haitian culture. |
| Grace | In "Caroline's Wedding," Grace intercedes between her sister Caroline and their mother. Caroline is about to marry a non-Haitian man and her mother disapproves of the match. |
| Josephine's mother | In "Nineteen Thirty-Seven," Josephine's mother makes it across a river full of blood during the massacre of Haitian workers by Dominican soldiers. She gives birth to her daughter once she reaches Haitian soil. |
| Lamort's grandmother | In "The Missing Peace," Lamort's grandmother warns Lamort to be careful of foreigners. She blames Lamort for Lamort's mother's death. |
| Lili | Lili is Guy's wife in "A Wall of Fire Rising." She disapproves of Guy's stealing a hot air balloon but loves and supports him even in death. |
| Little Guy | In "A Wall of Fire Rising," Little Guy is the son of Guy and Lili. He recites his school play lines over his father's dead body. |
| Ma | In "Caroline's Wedding," Ma has two daughters, Caroline and Grace. Ma is upset that Caroline is about to marry a non-Haitian man. |
| The male narrator | The male narrator in "Children of the Sea," has escaped from Haiti on a leaky boat full of other passengers. |
| The narrator of "A Wall of Fire Rising" | The narrator of "A Wall of Fire Rising" describes the events that lead to tragedy for Guy and his small family. |
| The narrator of "Epilogue: Women Like Us" | The narrator of "Epilogue: Women Like Us" addresses the young woman writer about her writing and her ancestry. |
| The narrator of "Seeing Things Simply" | The narrator of "Seeing Things Simply" recounts the experiences and interactions of a painter and her subject. |
| The prostitute's son | The prostitute's son in "Night Women" sleeps peacefully while his mother greets male customers. |
| Rafael Trujillo | Rafael Trujillo (1891–1961) was the dictator in charge of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his death by assassination. He led the massacre that shaped Josephine's life in "Nineteen Thirty-Seven." |
| Rose | In "Between the Pool and the Gardenias," Rose is the name the maid Marie gives to a dead baby she finds on the street. Marie speaks at length with Rose and treats the dead baby as if she were alive. |
| Suzette's mother | In "New York Day Women," Suzette's mother normally stays in her Brooklyn neighborhood but surprises her daughter when she shops in central New York City. She shops and interacts in a friendly manner with people while her daughter wonders about how well she knows her mother. |
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