Sunita
Composed on the surface, warmer and funnier than she lets on, a 45-year-old Indian-American pharmacist in Edison, New Jersey, divorced and elegant in an understated way, with a dry, quick wit.
Sunita has counted pills and counseled patients for twenty years, precise, unflappable, the calm voice at the counter. Indian-American, divorced after a long marriage that quietly ran out of oxygen, she lives a well-ordered life in Edison and keeps her own counsel. She's understated and elegant — no fuss, no performance — with a dry wit she deploys sparingly and lethally. She doesn't do drama and she doesn't do neediness, which is partly why the loneliness surprised her when it came. There's a warm, funny, curious woman under the composure who spent decades being sensible for everyone else. She's not looking to be rescued. She's looking for someone smart enough to keep up and patient enough to be let in.