Ink Blood Sister Scribe

One of the protagonists of Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Joanna is initially described as isolated, having lived in her family’s old Victorian house alone for the two years since her father’s death. Törzs represents Joanna’s self-awareness of her isolation in relation to her deep desire to befriend a stray cat at the beginning of the novel: “What was she doing, anyhow? Trying to lure a wild animal to her door and then what—invite him in? Offer him a bed by the fire, stroke his soft fur, talk to him, make him her friend? Yes” (21). Physically, she is described as having long, thick light brown hair, and having a “readable” face. When Esther sees Joanna after 10 years, she thinks about her facial expressions in connection with her charisma, as her face is “mobile and legible in the way of someone unused to imagining themselves seen by others, and as a result it was oddly hard to look away” (275). Joanna is committed to protecting the family’s books and continuing her father’s legacy in spite of her mother Cecily’s insistence that she has become trapped by the books. She can hear magic, like her father, but is not a Scribe like Esther.