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Joe Talbert

This character is a college student who must balance caring for a sibling, a bipolar mother, and work while writing a biography for an English class.

Carl Iverson

This person has both killed and murdered and is currently dying of cancer in a nursing home.

Lila Nash

This person does not allow others to get emotionally close. This person is a college student and lives in the protagonist's apartment building.

Crystal Hagen

This 14-year-old ties the main characters of the novel together in an unusual way even though she are not an active character.

Jeremy Talbert

This character is an 18-year-old with autism who inadvertently helps to solve the mystery of who killed a 14-year-old girl 30 years ago.

Virgil Gray

This character served with the accused murderer of a 14-year-old girl in the Vietnam war and is one of the accused murderer's biggest supporters.

Douglas Lockwood

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