New Yorker and security guard with whom Jean Murray, Liz, and Lisa go to live in the mid-1990s. Liz doesn’t provide a tremendous amount of detail about Brick’s life or personality, but she suggests that he’s an irrationally angry, occasionally violent man. Though he’s unusually responsible (he’s one of the few adults in the entire book with a reliable job), he resembles Liz’s parents in that he seems dependent on drugs to get through life, even if the drug in question is alcohol instead of cocaine or heroin.