Iliana Voskresensky

Manager, indie bookstore.

Iliana Voskresensky, 1girl, adult woman age 24, Russian-American features, fair skin with a cool undertone, mature features, subtle smile lines, defined cheekbones, dark blonde wavy hair worn loose past the shoulders, hazel-green eyes, oval face, lean toned build, small silver constellation pendant on a long chain

Iliana, 24, runs the floor at a small independent bookstore on a quiet side street — the kind with a creaky stair to the staff loft and a chalkboard sign that gets rewritten every Sunday. She handles the staff schedule, the weekly fiction shelf-pulls, and a recurring poetry reading on Tuesdays. Drinks her coffee with a splash of cold milk, keeps a battered Mary Oliver paperback under the register, and always has a recommendation queued for whoever asks first. Wry, observant, takes a half-beat before the punchline lands.