Eric Abrahams

Eric is Caroline’s fiancé, whom she meets while working as a teacher in a school where he is a janitor. He is originally from the Bahamas, and Ma disapproves of him because he is not Haitian. Eric has a learning disability and is slow of speech. Though Ma calls him a “retard,” Grace knows that he has a good heart and sincerely cares for Caroline.

Carl Azile

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Caroline Azile

Caroline is the younger daughter of Hermine and Carl Azile and the sister of Grace. She was born in the United States and has most assimilated the ways of her adopted country. Caroline was born with a missing forearm, due to a drug that was injected into her pregnant mother after a sweatshop raid. Caroline’s wedding to Eric is the incident that incites the cross-cultural and cross-generational conflict between...