Francka is George Kracha’s sister and Andrej Sedlar’s wife. She has two sons, Victor and Andy. Francka and Andrej move from White Haven to Homestead, where they purchase a house and where Andrej helps Kracha get a job in the steel mill. Francka has a tenuous relationship with Kracha, as she frequently disproves of his excessive drinking and his affair with Zuska. When she chastises him for committing adultery, Kracha strikes her. Later in the novel, Kracha moves in with Francka after Zuska leaves him. When Francka learns that Kracha will not receive a pension from the steel mill, she intentionally keeps him drunk on homemade moonshine, and Dobie theorizes that she did this to slowly kill him.