Kate Vaiden (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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Kate Vaiden, the main character, who tells her story when she is fifty-seven years old and uncertain how many more years her cancer will allow her to live. The story, told with compelling forthrightness and in a richly idiomatic language, focuses on the dramatic events and actions that occurred between the ages of ten and twenty and that have shaped the rest of Kate’s life. The first tragedy that struck was the violent death of her parents. Later and perhaps even more scarring came the death of Gaston, her high school lover, who was killed at the age of...

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