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The Eyes Are the Best Part

Book cover of The Eyes Are the Best Part
The Eyes Are the Best PartMonika Kim

Characters in The Eyes Are the Best Part

5 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Ji-won Lim

    Korean-American college freshman and unreliable narrator who becomes head of the household after her father leaves; her growing obsession with eyes, sparked by her mother's new boyfriend George, curdles into a violent hunger.

Antagonists

  • George

    The mother's condescending, entitled new white boyfriend, whose pale blue eyes fixate Ji-won's dark cravings.

Supporting characters

  • Umma (Ji-won's mother)

    Ji-won's overwhelmed immigrant mother, working at a grocery store and barely holding the family together after her husband leaves.

  • Ji-hyun

    Ji-won's fifteen-year-old younger sister.

  • Appa (Ji-won's father)

    Ji-won's father, who deserts the family for another woman, triggering its collapse.

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