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Susan Minot

This person is the author of the collection Why I Don't Write.

The Man

This character is a Kenyan journalist and a married man; the protagonist of "Polepole" has sex with him before learning that he is married.

Daisy

This character in "Polepole" is a documentary filmmaker in Kenya.

Edmund

This character is the manservant of a Kenyan journalist in "Polepole."

Cecily

This character is the wife of the Kenyan journalist's manservant in "Polepole."

John

This character does not appear in the story, but he is the man the dying woman is thinking of in "The Torch."

Andrew

This character is the actual husband of the dying woman in "The Torch."

Ivy

This character is the protagonist of "Occupied."

Nicky

This character is a child who does not actually appear in "Occupied," but his mother spends a large part of that story thinking about him.

Henry

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