Whistler

Now 53 and an English teacher in Manhattan, she narrates the novel as she reconnects with her former stepfather Eddie decades after a childhood car accident ended his marriage to her mother.

Daphne's former stepfather, a book editor married to her mother for a little over a year; exiled from the family after a car accident when Daphne was nine, the two reunite by chance forty-five years later at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Daphne's mother, who married Eddie for a little over a year and ended the marriage after the accident that injured him and left nine-year-old Daphne to seek help alone in the snow.

Daphne's younger sister, now a clinical psychologist, who gently draws the full story of the accident out of Daphne.

Daphne's husband, a retired hospital administrator seventeen years her senior; he is with her at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when she recognizes Eddie.