Youth in Revolt - Characters

Characters

• Nicholas "Nick" Twisp - The 14-year-old protagonist. The novel is told through his journal entries. Nick is a cynical teen who pines for Sheeni Saunders. He creates, throughout the story, two alter egos: Francois and Carlotta. Francois is the "bad side" and Carlotta is the relatively "feminine side".
• François Dillinger - Nick's French bad side. The first name comes from Sheeni's prediction that her French future husband will have that name.
• Carlotta Ulansky - Nick's feminine side, got the last name from an elderly woman he met at his sister Joanie's apartment building. Dresses in Fuzzy's late grandmother's clothes, Nick later passes off as Carlotta.
• Sheridan "Sheeni" Saunders - A 14-year-old girl who is the object of Nick's desire.
• Estelle Twisp - Nick's neurotic mother, an employee of the DMV.
• George Twisp - Nick's alcoholic father, a failed writer who dates hot young women and neglects his child support duties.
• Joanie Twisp - Nick's crudely rebellious 18-year-old sister who lives in Los Angeles with her boyfriend Dr. Philip.
• Mr. Elwyn Saunders - Sheeni's strict lawyer father. He also is quick to anger, not fond of Nick, but likes Trent.
• Mrs. Saunders - Sheeni's religious mother, also is not fond of Nick, but she accepts Trent.
• Trent Preston - Nick's arch nemesis, former boyfriend/current friend of Sheeni (with whom she is still in love)
• Lacey - George's dim-witted 19-year-old girlfriend who works as a stylist.
• Paul Saunders - Sheeni's psychedelic older brother, who speaks in riddles, but is alone able to see through all of Nick's machinations. He has designs on Lacey.
• Frank "Fuzzy" DeFalco - Nick's friend in Ukiah. His father owns a concrete company and is having an affair with a female employee. His mother, in retaliation, has a brief affair with George Twisp.
• Vijay Joshi - Nick's friend, and later rival, in Ukiah. He is from India and is a Republican (he later claims to be a Democrat in an effort to woo Sheeni).
• Apurva Joshi - Vijay's 16-year-old sister, who in Nick's eyes, is second to only Sheeni in beauty. She is Trent's girlfriend whom he marries in Revolting Youth.
• Jud Ferguson - Nick's next-door-neighbor in Oakland. He later moves to Ukiah, renting the extra bedroom in George Twisp's house, so he can support the concrete worker's strike (the DeFalco concrete company).