One Last Stop characters

Appears from the start

A guarded twenty-three-year-old who transfers to college in New York after growing up inside her mother's consuming search for a missing brother. August is observant and skilled at investigation but expects relationships and places to disappoint her, an attitude tested by her new household and a captivating woman on the subway.

Also known as Jane Su

Appears from the start

A charismatic young Chinese American woman whom August repeatedly meets on the Q train. Jane dresses like a punk from another era, helps strangers without hesitation, and seems always to be aboard the train no matter when August travels.

Appears from the start

August's new roommate, a warm and theatrical psychic who works as a bartender. Niko reads people quickly, embraces the household's unusual problems, and offers August a form of friendship that does not wait for her defenses to come down.

Appears from the start

One of August's roommates, an inventive engineer and artist whose many practical projects fill the apartment. Myla meets strange situations with curiosity and supplies technical imagination when August's subway mystery stops having an ordinary explanation.

Appears from the start

A quiet tattoo artist who shares the apartment and hides a deeply romantic nature behind pessimism and reserve. Wes is entangled in an unspoken attachment to Isaiah and becomes part of the loyal group helping August.

Also known as Annie Depressant

First appears in chapter 2

Niko's friend and neighbor, a skilled drag performer with a large personality and an important place in the apartment's chosen family. Isaiah's ease onstage contrasts with the uncertainty in his private relationship with Wes.

First appears in chapter 2

The longtime manager of Billy's Pancake House, where August finds work. Lucie is protective of the diner's staff and traditions, and the threat to the restaurant brings her into the group's efforts to preserve a shared community space.

Appears from the start

August's missing uncle, who vanished as a young man in the 1970s. Though she never knew him, years of helping her mother search for his fate have shaped August and taught her how to build a case from fragments.

First appears in chapter 2

One of August's co-workers at Billy's Pancake House and part of its close-knit staff. Winfield joins the effort to keep the restaurant open when its future is threatened.