Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora ZengKylie Lee Baker
Characters in Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
6 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Cora Zeng
Chinese American crime-scene cleaner haunted by her sister's murder and by hungry ghosts.
Supporting characters
Delilah Zeng
Cora's half-sister, killed in the opening scene by a stranger who shouts a racist slur before pushing her in front of a subway train — the murder that sets the plot in motion.
Harvey Chen
Cora's coworker at the crime-scene cleaning company; copes with the gore through nervous humor and floats the idea the killer may be tied to jiangshi, the hopping vampire of Chinese folklore.
Yifei Liu
Cora's coworker at the crime-scene cleaning company; guarded, practical and sharp.
Auntie Lois
Cora's white, Christian maternal aunt, one of the relatives who raised her.
Auntie Zeng
Cora's Chinese, superstitious paternal aunt, who first suggests a hungry ghost is haunting her.