Saint Maybe | Characters
The characters in Saint Maybe, as is typical for all Anne Tyler novels, are wonderfully diverse: the neighborhood characters like the foreigners with all their American gadgets; Claudia Bedloe, who names her children alphabetically; members of the Church of the Second Chance, who grieve for sons or gather for Good Works; and Rita, the clutter counselor, who straightens out lives by clearing out closets and basements.
Ian Bedloe undergoes the most change. At the beginning of the novel he is a seventeen year old described as "handsome and easygoing, quick to make friends,...
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