Characters in Acceptance

Main characters

• John Rodriguez

  Known throughout as Control. Carries one of the three braided storylines through the final volume of the trilogy.

  Also in Authority, Area X

• Saul Evans

  A former preacher keeping the lighthouse on the Forgotten Coast in the years before the border came down.

• Gloria (Southern Reach)

  Director of the Southern Reach, followed here from her childhood on the Forgotten Coast before the border existed.

• Ghost Bird

  The returned double of the biologist, who goes back across the border in the final volume.