Age: 60
Anthropologist (retired), landowner, power broker, matriarch. In her late twenties, Grace lost faith in her scientific method. She retired and married a wealthy landowner in Boca Grande, a tiny republic in Central America. Her husband Edgar Strasser-Mendana became the political leader of Boca Grande in 1959, when his brother Luis — the president — was assassinated. Years later, when Edgar died (of natural causes), his younger brother Victor inherited his title, but Grace inherited his land, his wealth, and — most importantly — his power.
Grace Strasser-Mendana
Grace Strasser-Mendana
“Unlike Charlotte I do not dream my life. I try to make enough distinctions. I am interested in Charlotte Douglas only insofar as she passed through Boca Grande, only insofar as the meaning of that sojourn continues to elude me.”
— Grace“I looked at her for a long time. I think I loved Charlotte in that moment as a parent loves the child who has just fallen from a bicycle, met a pervert, lost a prize, come up in any way against the hardness of the world. I think I was also angry at her, again like a parent, furious that she hadn’t known better, furious that she had been wrong. I looked away from her.”
— Grace
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