Main Characters
- Chris Nielsen – the protagonist and main narrator, a middle-aged screenwriter who is killed in a car accident and who spends most of the novel exploring the afterlife while searching for his wife Ann
- Robert Nielsen – Chris's living brother, narrator of frame story, to whom most of novel is addressed
- Ann – Chris's wife who commits suicide due to grief over Chris's death
- Albert – Chris's cousin who acts as his guide in Heaven and whose job is to travel to the "lower realm" (i.e. Hell) to help its inhabitants
- Leona – woman who guides Chris through a Heavenly city; Chris first mistakes her for Ann
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