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Lurie Mattie

This character has committed serious crimes and spends many years running from the law. One of this character's closest relationships is with a camel. This character can communicate with spirits of dead people.

Nora Lark

This character is a hard-working homesteader who has suffered the loss of an infant child and is raising three other children with a spouse.

Emmett Lark

This character is a homesteader who runs an independent newspaper in the Arizona Territory in the late 1800s and who disappears early on in the novel.

Toby Lark

This young character is a child of homesteaders in the Arizona Territory who suffers a serious eye injury in a fall from a horse.

Josie Kincaid

This young character is taken in by a family in the Arizona Territory to work and help around the homestead. This character can communicate with the spirit world and is known for...

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