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Ted Hollander
Also known as Charlie, Charlene is Lou’s daughter. On a trip to Africa with her father, she misses her mother and tries to connect to her younger brother, Rolph. She is defiant in her youth, and as an adult, joins a cult in Mexico run by a charismatic leader who promotes a diet of raw eggs. After almost dying of Salmonella, Charlie returns to the U.S., struggles with a cocaine addiction, and becomes estranged from her father.
Charlene (Charlie) Quotes in A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Chapter 4
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[Charlie] takes hold of his hands. As they move together, Rolph feels his self-consciousness miraculously fade, as if he is growing up right there on the dance floor, becoming a boy who dances with girls like his sister. Charlie feels it, too. In fact, this particular memory is one she'll return to again and again, for the rest of her life, long after Rolph has shot himself in the head in their father's house at twenty-eight: her brother as a boy, hair slicked flat, eyes sparkling, shyly learning to dance.
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Charlene (Charlie) Quotes in A Visit from the Goon Squad
The A Visit from the Goon Squad quotes below are all either spoken by Charlene (Charlie) or refer to Charlene (Charlie). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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[Charlie] takes hold of his hands. As they move together, Rolph feels his self-consciousness miraculously fade, as if he is growing up right there on the dance floor, becoming a boy who dances with girls like his sister. Charlie feels it, too. In fact, this particular memory is one she'll return to again and again, for the rest of her life, long after Rolph has shot himself in the head in their father's house at twenty-eight: her brother as a boy, hair slicked flat, eyes sparkling, shyly learning to dance.
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