All The Many Daughters of Afong Moy characters Listed With Descriptions

THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY
by Jamie Ford
Characters By Chapter

EDITOR:
Remy Hale

QUICK EDITION (QE)

CH	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	DESCRIPTION
			Act I
1			Faye
	Faye	Moy	A nurse in China during WWII.
	Lai King	Moy	Faye Moy's American-born mother.
	Li	Bai	Chinese poet.
	Gertrude	Stein	American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector.
	Oscar	Wilde	Irish poet and playwright.
	Lois		A new recruit nurse.
	Frank	Sinatra	American singer and actor.
	Theodore	Roosevelt	26th U.S. President.
	Gary	Cooper	American actor.
	Jin	Yan	A Korean-born Chinese actor.
	Dr.	Gentry	U.S. Army flight surgeon.
	John	Garland	A pilot.
	Bob	Hope	American comedian and actor.
	Paulette	Goddard	American actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
	Scott	Fitzgerald	American novelist, essayist and short story writer.
	Ernest	Hemingway	American novelist, short story writer and journalist.
	agatha	Christie	English writer.
	Ba	Jin	Chinese translator and writer.
	Charles	Dickens	English novelist and social critic.
	Edgar Allan	Poe	American writer, poet, author, editor and literary critic.
2			Dorothy
	Dorothy	Moy	Washington's former poet laureate.
	Annabel		Dorothy's daughter.
	Louis		Dorothy's live-in partner.
	Frida	Kahlo	A Mexican painter.
	Anne	Sexton	American poet.
	Samuel Taylor	Coleridge	English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian.
3			Afong
	Afong	Moy	The first Chinese woman to set foot on American soil.
	Henry	Hannington	Afong Moy's manager.
	Dei	Yu	Afong Moy's husband.
	Yao	Han	Afong Moy's friend.
	Li	Yu	Chinese poet and the last ruler of the Sothern Tang dynasty.
	Confucius		A Chinese philosopher.
	Mrs.	Hannington	Mr. Hannington's wife.
	Andrew	Jackson	7th U.S. President.
	Francis		One of Afong Moy's cousins.
	Nathaniel	Carnes	One of Afong Moy's cousins.
4			Dorothy
	Rupi	Kaur	Canadian poet, illustrator and author.
5			Greta
	Greta	Moy	A tech executive with a unique dating app.
	Anjalee		A company's CFO and one of the founding partners.
	Willie	Bloomquist	American baseball coach.
	Samsara		An English teacher and Sanshou instructor. aka: Sam.
6			Dorothy
	Toshiko		A school worker at the front desk.
	Graham		Dorothy's favorite cohorts from Bellevue College.
	Clarke		Graham's friend.
	Sylvia	Plath	American poet, novelist and short story writer.
	Virginia	Woolf	An English writer.
	Yukio	Mishima	Japanese author, poet, playwright and actor.
	Kurt	Cobain	American musician.
	Wendell	Berry	American novelist, poet, essayist and environmental activist.
7			Zeo
	Zeo	Moy	A student in England at a famous school with no rules.
	Alyce	Bidwell	Zoe's favorite teacher.
	Mary	Robinson	England poet and actress.
	Hermann	Hesse	German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter.
	Stanley		Alyce Bidwell's husband.
	Sui Sin	Far	A writer.
	Augustus	Moss	Greta's acquaintance. aka: Guto.
	Augustus	Dickens	A novelist. Youngest brother of Charles Dickens.
	T. G.	Tucker	A writer.
	Sappho		A Greek poet.
	Kerkos		Sappho's husband.
	Johannes	Brahms	German composer and pianist.
	Brothers Grimm		German academics, philologists, cultural researchers and authors.
	Theo		Greta's acquaintance. aka: Guto.
	Ezra	Pound	American poet and critic.
	William	Shakespeare	English playwright and poet.
8			Faye
	Meng	Po	The goddess of oblivion in Chinese mythology.
	Lady Meng	Jiang	Chinese tale with many variations.
	Rumi		A 13th century poet.
9			Lai King
	Captain	Stormalong	An American folk hero.
	Li	Qingzhao	A Chinese poet.
10			Dorothy
	Dr.	Shedhorn	Dorothy's physician.
	Anis	Mojgani	American poet and visual artist.
			Act II
11			Afong
	Nanchoy	Eu Tong	Hannington's new interpreter.
	Beau	Brummell	An arbiter of British men's fashion.
	Trudy		Mrs. Hannington's sister.
12			Dorothy
	Bruce	Lee	American martial artist and actor.
	Louise		Louis' mother.
	Andrea	Gibson	American poet and activist.
13			Greta
	Simone	de Beauvoir	French philosopher and writer.
	Betty	Friedan	American writer and activist.
	Angela	Davis	American political activist and philosopher.
	Yoko	Ono	Japanese multimedia artist and singer.
	Carter	Branson	Greta's new acquaintance.
	Christian	Louboutin	French fashion designer.
	Elton	John	British singer and pianist.
	Louis XIV		King of France.
	Sophia	Blessing	A reporter.
15			Lai King
	Waldemar	Haffkine	Russian-French bacteriologist.
	Mark	Cappis	Chief officer of the ship.
	Walt	Whitman	American poet and essayist.
	Anna		A steerage matron.
	Captain	Ward	A pirate.
	W.B.	Yeats	An Irish poet, dramatist. writer and politician.
	Albert 1		A merchant of dry goods.
	Albert 2		Albert's 1 nephew. aka: Alby.
	Mr.	Fawcet	A sailor.
16			Dorothy
	Mary	Oliver	American poet.
	Emily	Dickenson	American poet.
	Glenn	Miller	American big band owner, conductor, composer and arranger.
	Fred	Astaire	American dancer and actor.
	Ginger	Rogers	American actress and dancer.
	Mrs.	Hanson	An old English teacher.
	John		Dorothy's new acquaintance.
	Billie	Holiday	American jazz and swing music singer.
17			Zoe
	Lily		One of Zoe's roommates.
	Mildred		One of Zoe's roommates.
	Karan		One of the students from India.
	Neysa		One of the students from India.
	Koji		A student from Japan.
	Zofia		A student from Poland.
	Ethan		One of the Jewish students.
	Samuel		One of the Jewish students.
	Naomi		One of the Jewish students.
			Act III
18			Faye
	Shi		A monk.
19			Dorothy
	John	Clare	An English poet.
	Norbert	Wiener	American mathematician and philosopher.
	Xi		A bhikkhuni.
20			Echoes
	Nikki	Giovanni	American poet and writer.
	Demeter		The Olympian goddess of agriculture, grain and bread.
	Eva	Gore-Booth	Irish poet and theologian.
	Johannes	Gutenberg	Designed and built the first known mechanized printing press.
			Epilogue
21			Annabel
	Pasha		A fiction writer.

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