Favorite Side Character

Last year I experienced the joy of reading a great book entitled Heft by Liz Moore.  It told two stories that were bound together by the main characters' connection to a single woman.  One of the stories is about a morbidly obese man named Arthur who has sadly allowed his obesity to render him housebound.  Arthur himself was a fabulous character for which I felt a great deal of sympathy, but there was also a fantastic side character in this novel.  At the beginning of Heft, Arthur decides that he needs to hire a cleaner - enter Yolanda a heavily pregnant young woman.  Yolanda became Arthur's salvation in that it was her honesty, persistence and caring that got Arthur out of the house again.  Yolanda was more than this though as she was not without her problems.  She was unmarried and her boyfriend is a bit of a dirtbag.  Her problems though are perhaps what make her inherent goodness shine through and I still remember her fondly for how she helped Arthur.