8 cockroaches

The most mysterious character of the story is of course the main heroine. Unnamed beautiful model with her jaw shot off. Everybody in the book have their variant of personal drama. She has her parents going crazy after her homosexual brother's death. "Now what I wanted my folks to talk about was me. I’d tell them how Evie and me were shooting a new infomer-cial. My modeling career was taking off. I wanted to tell them about my new boyfriend, Manus, but no. Whether he’s good or bad, alive or dead, Shane still gets all the attention. All I ever get is angry".
This attention to her apperiance from strangers as long as she's very attractive and ignorance of her as a personality with thoghts and wishes brought her to the catastrophy. After the accident she says: "Birds ate my face". In this words i see her attempt to forget her past, hide herself in a direct and an extended sense. No memores and silence becomes her permanent fellow passenger. This girl is a generalized character of every human being. All of us try to hide something behind the veils. Otherwise we are too vulnerable.
“Veils,” Brandy says as each color settles over me. “You need to look like you’re keeping secrets,” she says. “If you’re going to do the outside world, Miss St. Patience, you need to not let people see your face,” she says.
“You can go anywhere in the world,” Brandy goes on and on.
You just can’t let people know who you really are.
“You can live a completely normal, regular life,” she says.
You just can’t let anybody get close enough to you to learn the truth.