C.M. Lucca

The novel's narrator, C.M. Lucca, is a widow struggling to work through the loss of her wife, X. C.M. has a rather thorny attitude about the project she has elected to undertake—a corrective biography of her wife's life—and tends to dismiss or indict people she interviews who have differing or (as she believes) "incorrect" ideas about who her wife was. She is standoffish and combative, often alienating her own interview subjects.

Additionally, C.M. is honest to a fault, often incapable of keeping information to herself. While interviewing subjects in the Former Southern Territory, for instance, C.M. cannot stop herself from informing one of X's childhood friends, Bree Morton, that X did not die during the Revelation Rifle Affair as Bree has been told. This penchant for radical honesty often proves an impediment to C.M.'s work as a journalist...