Lilith Iyapo

Lilith Iyapo is the first character that the story follows. Later in the trilogy she seemingly becomes a lesser character but the characters that become the major characters are all her descendants. Lilith, when she is first awakened, is thought to be perhaps a member of the Earth military because of her behavior. She is unwilling to talk to her invisible captors. The truth of the matter is that Lilith is a wife and a mother on Earth when her husband and small child are killed in a car accident. Lilith is still mourning their passing when the bombs are dropped on Earth and everything is destroyed.

Lilith's mother and several other members of her family have died from cancer or been diagnosed with cancer. Lilith herself is carrying cancer although she does not know it. One of the Oankali removes her cancer and it is no...