Bilma calls herself Lakshmi's "new Aunty" and sells her to Mumtaz. She is notable for her yellow fabric garments, excessive jewelry, and black teeth. Aunty Bimlaīimla approaches Lakshmi at a festival and tempts her to move to the city. The two children share a mutual attraction before Lakshmi is sold into sexual slavery. Krishna is Lakshmi's "sleepy cat-eyed" betrothed. Gita is Lakshmi's childhood friend who moved to the city, supposedly to work as a maid in a wealthy family's home. She helps broker Lakshmi's sale into sex slavery. Ama often remarks that Tali "thinks she is a person." Bajai Sitaīajai Sita is an old trader woman in Lakshmi's village. Lakshmi's stepfather is the one who sells her into sexual slavery. He spends all day drinking and gambling, losing the family's few possessions. He has a deformed arm, which means he cannot work. Lakshmi's stepfather married Ama after her husband died. Ama fixates on obtaining a tin roof, believing it is an important status symbol. After her first husband died, Ama married Lakshmi's stepfather, believing having a man is necessary for survival. All of Ama's children, except Lakshmi and her baby brother, died in infancy or were miscarried. She is thirty-one years old and has never left her mountain village.
Lakshmi's mother, Ama, works tirelessly to provide for her family. At the end of the text, she seizes her opportunity to escape from Happiness House despite Mumtaz's threats. Lakshmi secretly learns English words and carefully calculates her earnings. She resists Mumtaz, enduring beatings and starvation. In the Happiness House, Lakshmi is resourceful and courageous.
She is romantically interested in Krishna, to whom she is betrothed. In addition to helping her mother on the farm, Lakshmi lovingly cares for her goat, Tali, and her cucumber patch. Before her stepfather sells her into sexual slavery, Lakshmi is the top student in her class. The narrator and protagonist of the novel, Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl from a remote mountain village in Nepal.
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