NONPECULIAR PERSONAE

FRANKLIN PORTMAN
Jacob’s father; bird hobbyist, wannabe writer

MARYANN PORTMAN
Jacob’s mother; heiress to Florida’s second-largest drugstore chain

RICKY PICKERING
Jacob’s only normal friend

DOCTOR GOLAN

(DECEASED)
A wight who posed as a psychiatrist to deceive Jacob and his family; later killed by Jacob

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

(DECEASED)
Essayist, lecturer, poet