Mira Bunting

Mira Bunting is the 29-year-old co-founder of Birnam Wood. She lives with her best friend, Shelley. She gets into a complicated relationship with Robert Lemoine, ignoring the multiple red flags that he displays. Mira is a self-proclaimed anti-capitalist who believes that she can change the world through gardening and sustainability, and condemns those who disagree with her.

Mira outwardly projects an air of confidence while second guessing or even berating herself internally. Mira grew up in a liberal household and parroted her parents’ views. She recognizes this in hindsight, remembering that her parents put her on display at parties. Mira “could not dispel, at times, a nagging sense of fraudulence, that she was most valued for what she most easily performed” (49). Mira “disparaged what she felt and thought, and she was quick to punish anything she judged to be a sign of moral weakness” when doing things...