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Giovanna

This character is a teenager navigating tumultuous and sometimes disappointing relationships with both parents, friends, and extended family throughout the novel. This character is at times overly preoccupied with physical beauty and ugliness.

Vittoria

This character is volatile, melodramatic, and at times vulgar, but this character is also capable of honest insights, affection, and care.

Andrea

This character is disliked by the character's own siblings and engages in a love affair with the spouse of the character's best friend. This character works in the academic world.

Nella

This character appears to the main protagonist as weak at times, but as the novel progresses the protagonist and narrator seems to find more sympathy and understanding for this important character's actions.

Constanza

This character is refined but treacherous in that the character engages in an affair with the spouse of a close friend.

Mariano

The protagonist views this character as...

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