Characters
Emily: -Emily has been through law school. She has an older brother -Emily is off away somewhere – war? -Emily is with Boris but may have had something with the Victor? -Emily has been with Boris for 3 years, losing love for him? -Emily’s surname is Runbird -Emily is reading “Blood and Guts in High Schools” which Boris sent her -Flashes back to a morning with Boris, hints towards an event earlier on in their relationship, Boris has facial hair, Emily it undecided on whether she likes it or not -Same morning, a little later on, Emily doesn’t approve of the facial hair, thinks of it as false advertising -Back to current time, Emily is writing to Boris, Thea is depressed, Veronica needs to pay the car insurance. Boris is expected to have bought a new bed -Lucy is Emily’s Mother -She also has a younger sister by the name of Veronica -Emily is a fit agile woman
Thea Agnew is a professor at a University in the town of Tara. Emily and her sister Veronica are her pupils. She has a teenaged son named Leroy who has recently left school to take his own "On the Road" tour of the United States. Central to the plot of Victory Garden is Thea's role as head of a Curriculum Revision Committee looking at the subject of Western Civilization as well her discovery with a group of friends that a popular local creek has been sold to a company intending to build a golf course nearby. One of the pivotal scenes in Victory Garden occurs at Thea's house. During a party an appearance from Uqbari the Prophet leads to a gun being fired off in her back yard which results in the intervention of police and the accidental beating of Harley.
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