| Ray |
Abnesti | Researcher in charge of experimental prison. |
| Mike |
Appel | Figure from Jeff's past. |
| Linda |
Berling | Child Welfare worker. |
| Todd |
Birnie | Divisional director. |
| Suzanne |
Bledsoe | Girl Robin imagines captured. |
| Kyle |
Boot | Boy who witnesses the kidnapping. |
| Matthew |
Brady | Civil War photographer. |
| Lon |
Brewster | Helpful acquaintance. |
| Dr. |
Brile | Callie's acquaintance. |
| Pastor |
Carol | Part of the suburban town Alison observes and loves. |
| Aunt |
Chloe | Robin's aunt. |
| Mr. |
Dees | Mrs. Dees' cheating husband. |
| Mrs. |
Dees | Alison's Ethics teacher. |
| Kirk |
Desner | Name referenced in memory. |
| Father |
Dmitri | Saint known for faith and suffering with cancer. |
| Larry |
Donfrey | Successful realtor and Al's rival. |
| Matt |
Drey | Owner of the largest mouth in the land. |
| Don |
Eber | Terminally ill man. |
| Anna |
Eleanor Roosevelt | Longest-serving First Lady of the United States. |
| Sister |
Eustace | Eber's teacher. |
| John |
F. Kennedy | 35th U.S. President. |
| Mr. |
Feder | Driver's education teacher. |
| Kate |
Fresslen | Molecular engineer. |
| Mahatma |
Gandhi | Indian freedom fighter. |
| Greta |
Garbo | Swedish-American actress. |
| Semplica |
Girls | Impoverished foreign women used as human lawn ornaments. Aka: The Gals. |
| Ken |
Glenn | Mag's admirer. |
| Gary |
Gold | Wealthy acquaintance. |
| Helen |
Keller | American author, disability rights advocate, political activist, and lecturer. |
| Mrs. |
Kendall | Robin's mother. |
| Mrs. |
Lacey | Jeff's acquaintance. |
| Sister |
Lynette | Callie's acquaintance. |
| Fu |
Manchu | Comic book character. |
| Don |
Murray | Abusive manager of KnightLyfe park. |
| Pablo |
Picasso | Spanish painter and sculptor. |
| Alison |
Pope | Fourteen-year-old girl; protagonist of the story. |
| Mel |
Redden | Co-worker of Lilly's father. |
| Tom |
Reed | Actor. |
| Mr. |
Renn | History teacher. |
| Al |
Roosten | Insecure antique store owner. |
| Ms. |
Ross | Eva's teacher. |
| Dmitri |
Shostakovich | Soviet-Russian composer. |
| Feddy |
Slavko | Kyle's friend. |
| Mr. |
Small Package | Mental nickname Alison gives to a potential suitor. |
| Dr. |
Spivey | Eber's doctor. |
| Mother |
Teresa | Albanian-Indian Catholic nun. |
| Leslie |
Torrini | Lilly's friend. |
| Ludwig |
van Beethoven | German composer and pianist. |
| Henry |
Wadsworth Longfellow | American poet. |
| Abbie |
| Marie's daughter. |
| Alberto |
| Mikey's mother's former partner. |
| Allen |
| Eber's deceased stepfather. |
| Andy |
| Fellow employee of Todd Birnie. |
| Becca |
| Heather's little sister. |
| Betty |
| One of the Semplica Girls. |
| Bo |
| Callie's son. |
| Brianna |
| Daughter of Jimmy and Callie. |
| Byron |
| Gary Gold's son. |
| Callie |
| Underclass mother. |
| Charles |
| Syl's lover. |
| Emmett |
| Leslie's father. |
| Eva |
| Young daughter of the narrator. |
| Ferber |
| Dog. |
| Goochie |
| Family dog. |
| Harris |
| Neighbor. |
| Heather |
| Female inmate in an experimental prison facility. |
| Janice |
| Andy's partner. |
| Jeff |
| Prisoner in the experimental facility. |
| Jimmy |
| Callie's husband. |
| Jodi |
| Eber's daughter. |
| Josh |
| Marie's son. |
| Karen |
| Abnesti's child. |
| Karl |
| Gardener. |
| Keith |
| Jeff's acquaintance. |
| Lassie |
| Dog. |
| Lilly |
| Eva's sister. |
| Lisa |
| Abnesti's child. |
| Ma |
| Mikey's mother. |
| Mag |
| Roosten's sister. |
| Marie |
| Overprotective, wealthy mother. |
| Martha |
| Park employee assaulted by Don. |
| Melvin |
| Figure from the antagonist's past. |
| Mick |
| Abnesti's child. |
| Mikey |
| American veteran. |
| Molly |
| Eber's wife. |
| Pam |
| Mother of Eva and Lilly. |
| Phoebe |
| Abnesti's child. |
| Plato |
| Ancient philosopher referenced in hallucination. |
| Rachel |
| Inmate at the prison. |
| Renee |
| Mikey's sister. |
| Robert |
| Marie's husband. |
| Robin |
| Imaginative bullied boy; protagonist. |
| Rogan |
| One of Abnesti's men. |
| Roger |
| Robin's real name. |
| Ryan |
| Man observed by Mikey. |
| Squiggy |
| Cat. |
| Syl |
| Roosten's girlfriend. |
| Ted |
| Janitor. |
| Thomas |
| Brother of Eva and Lilly. |
| Todd |
| Abnesti's child. |
| Tommy |
| Eber's son. Aka: Tom. |
| Val |
| Eber's sister. |
| Verlaine |
| Abnesti's acquaintance. |
| Zeke |
| Puppy Marie plans to adopt. |
