Characters
- Eliza Naumann – a young girl, an entrant in the national spelling bee.
- Saul Naumann – Eliza's father, cantor in the Beth Amicha synagogue and student of the scriptures.
- Miriam Naumann – Eliza's mother, who is obsessive-compulsive and a kleptomaniac.
- Aaron Naumann – Eliza's brother, who loses the Jewish faith and goes on to become a "Hare Krishna".
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“The more gifted and talkative one’s characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.”
—Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936)
“Philosophy is written in this grand book—I mean the universe—
which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.”
—Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)