Maeve Fly

While the novel centers on Maeve’s descent into rage, it also presents a solution to her violent nature: personal connection in the form of Tallulah, Kate, and Gideon. After being disowned by her parents because she was “entirely different from and completely incomprehensible to them” (11), Maeve finds a life with her grandmother, Tallulah, whose character is much more in line with Maeve’s. For years, Tallulah supports and guides Maeve, both in how to hide her predatory nature (she encourages Maeve to think of herself as a wolf) and how to give in to it, hiding her murders by destroying the bodies and surviving undetected. With Tallulah, Maeve feels for the first time a breakdown of “that invisible barrier between you and them” as she finds “the will to exist in a world so wholly unsuited for [her]” (76). In this way, Tallulah provides Maeve with a sense of belonging for the first time in her life, their shared nature a key component of that connection. Similarly, Maeve finds support through Kate during her first years in Los Angeles. Maeve believes that Kate is a truly good person. Ironically, given that Maeve is the narrator and