Cedar Hawk Songmaker

Cedar is the 26-year-old protagonist and first person narrator of Future Home of the Living God. She is recording the novel's narrative in her journal, which she intends to give to her unborn child. Cedar is the adopted daughter of Sera and Glen Songmaker, and the biological daughter of Mary "Sweetie" Potts, however at the end of the novel, Cedar learns that Glen is actually her biological father; she is the result of a brief affair he had with Sweetie. Sweetie is Native American (of the Ojibwe tribe), so Cedar is half Native-American and very pleased to meet the family that shares her heritage. Sweetie and Cedar also bond over their mutual Catholicism, in particular the shrine to Native American saint Kateri Tekakwitha erected on the Ojibwe reservation.

Cedar is very invested in her Catholicism, she writes for and edits a Catholic magazine called "Zeal" and...