Emergency Contact
Emergency ContactMary H. K. Choi
Characters in Emergency Contact
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Penny Lee
An eighteen-year-old Korean American freshman at UT Austin who wants to write, guards herself carefully, and is far blunter on the page than in person.
Sam Becker
Twenty-one, broke and newly sober; he bakes at House Coffee and sleeps in the storage room above it, and wants to make documentaries.
Supporting characters
Celeste Yoon
Penny's young, boundaryless mother, who treats her daughter more like a peer than a child.
Lorraine
Sam's ex-girlfriend, whose pregnancy news destabilises him at the worst possible moment.
Jude Duarte
Penny's college roommate and Sam's niece; she is the reason the two of them meet.