Flynn Montgomery

Flynn is the novel's protagonist and narrator. At the time of the events he is narrating, he is a 24-year-old man living in Baker City, Oregon. In the early chapters, Flynn explains that his girlfriend Lola broke up with him because he never finished a writing project, and she found his lack of ambition and follow-through untenable. While going through a serious depression after this break-up, Flynn received a book deal, having sent a prospectus for a novel around to some publishers. Thus he becomes determined to write a novel and actually finish the project. Flynn decides to write about working in a supermarket, and gets a job at a local store called Muldoon's in order to research it. There, he meets many of the other principal characters of the book, including Mia Torres, with whom he falls in love, and Frank, a coworker that later turns...