Characters
- Anjali / Anju – from a higher caste than her sister Sudha, she loves books, and is known for speaking her mind and being stubborn
- Ashok Ghosh – devoted to Sudha, he proposes several times, he is rejected by the mothers as a potential husband because of his lower caste status and money made in trade
- Basudha / Sudha – loyal to her family, Sudha is a storyteller and dreamer, and is known for her beauty.
- Bijoy Chatterjee – Anju’s father and Gouri’s husband, Pishi’s brother, welcomes Gopal into his family like a brother.
- Gopal – Sudha’s father and Nalini’s husband, he persuades Bijoy to go on the doomed hunt for rubies, his past is not what it seems
- Gouri – Anju’s mother, she holds the Chatterjee family together by running the family bookstore despite struggles with her health
- Nalini – Sudha’s mother, she means well but can have an abrasive personality
- Pishi – widowed at a young age she joins her brother Bijoy’s household and helps raise Anju and Sudha, she is a source of information and support for the girls
- Ramesh Sanyal – Sudha’s husband, often travels with his job building railroads and bridges, a kind man, but unable to protect Sudha from his mother
- Ramur Ma – loyal servant and chaperone to the young girls
- Singhji – becomes the household chauffer when the girls are five years old, a trusted but somewhat mysterious figure, in the end we find out that he is Sudha's father and Nalini's husband
- Sunil Majumdars – Anju’s husband, born in India, he is a computer scientist from the United States
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