Our Father | Characters
The novel's cast is an ensemble; the four sisters have equally important roles. While at first glimpse each may seem to match a stereotype — the brilliant, overachieving oldest daughter; the cheery, uncomplicated housewife; the prickly Chicana lesbian — within a few pages they become so real and complicated that the stereotypes fall apart. Indeed, this may be the first of French's novels which treats each major female character primarily as an individual person, rather than as a variation of universal Woman.
The author has pulled off a major tour de force of character...
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