Bird by Bird Characters

Okay, so by now, you know this isn't a novel, nor is it fiction, so it doesn't exactly have characters as we usually think about them. But there are a few people in Bird by Bird who keep turning up...

Lamott's family is just a little bit like The Incredibles. She and the fam appear to live in a relatively normal middle-class community in California, and they do things like sit around reading aft...

If Lamott's family gives her a reason to write, so do her friends. Her friend Pammy gets a special mention: like Lamott's dad, Pammy tragically dies young, and as she did with her dad, Lamott finds...