Characters in Outer Dark

Main characters

• Rinthy Holme

  A young, unschooled Appalachian woman who bears her brother's child and sets out alone on a journey to find the infant she is told died of natural causes but refuses to believe is dead.

• Culla Holme

  Rinthy's brother and the father of her child; abandons the newborn in the woods and lies about its death, then flees across a hostile landscape as a fugitive, dogged by suspicion and by the three strangers who commit the crimes he is blamed for.