Arthur Leander

Arthur Leander, 51, is an actor who has achieved a great deal of fame from film and television. Originally from Delano Island in Canada, he has returned home to star as King Lear at the Elgin Theater in Toronto. He has been married three times. His wives are: in order, Miranda Carroll, Elizabeth Colton, and Lydia Marks. Each marriage suffered from an affair he had with the woman who would become his next wife. At the time of his death, he is ending his marriage to Lydia and conducting an affair with Tanya, the woman who looks after the children.

Arthur dies on stage from a massive heart attack in the first chapter. Of any of the characters in the novel, he is the only one readers get to know whose life is not defined by the Georgia Flu. What is revealed about Arthur is done so through...