Quoyle's eccentric elderly aunt who survives a joint suicide attempt with his parents. She persuades Quoyle to relocate to Newfoundland to her ancestral home. She helps restore the property, works as a boat upholsterer, and shares her own vulnerabilities, including a past romance with a woman who died of leukemia.
Agnis is Quoyle's paternal aunt and primary family survivor.
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