Anke

Anke is the main character of the book and it is told from her point of view. She is an avid volleyball player and has a few friends she hangs around with to escape the hell she calls home. Rona is on her volleyball team and since her father's alcoholic, Anke feels like she can talk to her about what's going on at her house. Jed is a senior and she comes over to nap with him on his basement couch and watched a show called French Flame. Angeline is someone who her mom forces her to hang out with every Sunday, which Anke hates. She finds Angeline to be very annoying, worrisome, and childish. Kyle is a boy on the soccer team Anke has a crush on,has talked to, and went to cheer him on during a game of his. With her siblings and mother she has a distant kind of relationship and is an onlooker of their abuse by her father. Anke comments on how keeping the abuse inside the house will keep him from hurting others on the outside. Her view of the abuse is mixed between being glad she is not abused, to feeling like not being abused means her father doesn't love her,  making her feel like furniture. Reading through her life is a journey, as you wonder what she's going to do next, and how her relationship with others will grow throughout the story.