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Alan Songmaker
The nurse who takes care of Cedar during her ultrasound appointment and encourages her to talk to her birth mother about possible genetic conditions that run in the family. She looks amused when Cedar reveals that her overtly indigenous-sounding name, Cedar Hawk Songmaker, was given to her by her white liberal adoptive parents.
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The Nurse Character Timeline in Future Home of the Living God
The timeline below shows where the character The Nurse appears in Future Home of the Living God. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Future Home of the Living God
A nurse, who is “probably Vietnamese” but has a distinctive Minnesota accent, asks the narrator several questions...
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The nurse compliments the narrator, Cedar Hawk Songmaker, on her name, asking if she got the name...
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Cedar promises the nurse that she will contact her birth mother, but the question has clearly left her unsettled....
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