My Friends
My FriendsFredrik Backman
Characters in My Friends
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Louisa (My Friends)
An eighteen-year-old aspiring artist raised in violent foster homes, who becomes fixated on the three figures at the end of the pier in a famous painting and sets out to learn their story.
C. Jat
The fourth friend, who painted "The One of the Sea" at fourteen; in the present timeline he is a terminally ill thirty-nine-year-old artist of world renown.
Supporting characters
Joar
The smallest of the four friends and the most combative, quick to fight for the others.
Ted (My Friends)
The shy, timid one of the four friends and the only one with a stable home; twenty-five years later the dying artist asks him to seek Louisa out.
Ali (My Friends)
The only girl among the four friends on the pier — fearless, loving and determined.