Little Earthquakes | Characters & Character Analysis

Little Earthquakes Characters

Lia (Lisa Urick) Frederick Lane

Lia, or Lisa (her real name), has long blond hair that isn't her natural color. Her natural color is brown, or rather chestnut. She's a beautiful woman with wide-set eyes, a full, pink mouth, high cheekbones and a heart-shaped face with a pointy chin. She's now in her early thirties, but left Philadelphia at barely eighteen and went to California to become an actress. Now she's come back home to Philadelphia after the devastating loss of her ten-week-old infant son, Caleb. She is married to Sam, an up-and-coming actor, whom she left suddenly and without warning.

Lia is mentally fragile and begins to "stalk" (her own word) a pregnant woman who she sees walking through the park where she has come to sit. She is wearing her mother's blue down coat, knowing at one time she would have tried to become invisible, but now nobody stares or cares. She thinks...
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