Eight Hundred Grapes

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of miscarriage.

Georgia Ford is the central protagonist of the narrative; she is the daughter of Dan and Jen Ford and the only sister to Finn and Bobby Ford. Physically, she is considered to be the “darker version” of her mother—“my curls the darker version of her curls, my nose tilted like her nose, my eyes dark green like my father’s but shaped like her” (26-27)—reflecting the fact that, like her mother, she has passions and dreams, but may take a different path and pursue them. When she moves to Los Angeles to work as a real estate lawyer, however, Georgia loses her Sonoma County look and takes on what her mother calls her city “armor,” with pencil skirts, lighter hair, stiletto heels, and weight loss. She met Ben, her soon-to-be husband, through her work and had plans to move to London with him once married.

As suggested by her appearance at the beginning, Georgia is a character who is often at odds with herself. While she highly prizes her family and their vineyard, she keeps away from them and is often left out of the goings-on of each family member’s life.