Linda Holmes

Cheyenne's very pious boyfriend.

Yes.

He'll surprise you.

There are moments where you expect him to be really judgy because he is so, so proud of his piety.

And then he isn't.

And then there are other times where you kind of expect he wouldn't be, and he is, and you sort of don't know for sure.

I also want to give a shout to Michael Angarano, who plays the professor who is Bodhi's father.

You really have to be careful when you play the odious person in a story like this, which he essentially is because...

He offers her no help.

First of all, he sleeps with a student and gets her pregnant.

But then is not helpful, is not interested, is kind of callous to her, is definitely one of these guys who sees it as, like, if you insist on having this baby, that becomes your problem.

Yeah.

I mean, that's a hell of a statement.

It's quite a thing to say.

Like, you have to be able to, like, revel in his awfulness without making it impossible to understand why she had an affair with him.

And I think they sort of give him enough, like, from the things that he's saying to her at the beginning of the book, he's giving her for one, of the story.

For one thing, he's giving her a lot of reassurance that she needs.

He's praising her writing.

And you can see it.

in retrospect like when you're older you can kind of see how he's sort of setting it up that he's wants to have sex with her but you understand how like she's young she's you know she has not had much stability in her life this man taking an interest in her is very interesting to her but i think the way that he plays this part is sort of i think he finds the right way to do it where you hate him but it doesn't seem ridiculous that she ever had sex with him