The Girl with a Thousand Faces
The Girl with a Thousand FacesSunyi Dean
Characters in The Girl with a Thousand Faces
6 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Mercy Chan
A ghost talker in Kowloon Walled City who works for the local triad and is trying to uncover the amnesia-erased truth of her own past.
Supporting characters
Cobra Lily
The ruthless triad boss Mercy works for in 1975 Kowloon Walled City.
Siu Yin
A young woman in the novel's 1941 timeline who flees to the island of Shek Ham Chau as war reaches Hong Kong.
Daiyu (The Girl with a Thousand Faces)
Siu Yin's mother, who returns to her birthplace and confronts the ghosts of her own family.
Bao (The Girl with a Thousand Faces)
A shapeshifting ghost cat (a maogui) who accompanies Mercy and appears across both of the novel's timelines.
Sea Sister
A spectral presence that appears in Mercy's dreams asking about "the island."