Cloud Atlas

by

David Mitchell

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Megan is the niece of Rufus Sixsmith who is a scientist like him. She lives in Hawaii. Luisa Rey sometimes gets mistaken for Megan. Although Megan is absent for most of the story, she helps Luisa find one of Rufus’s important documents, giving her the proof she needs to publish a story on Seaboard Power’s corruption.
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Megan Character Timeline in Cloud Atlas

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Chapter 3
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...was witty but distant. 6. Rufus shows Luisa a picture of himself with his niece Megan. Megan is a physicist with a Ph.D. from Caius College at Cambridge. Rufus himself doesn’t... (full context)
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...The man, an engineer who introduces himself as Isaac Sachs, assumes that Luisa must be Megan. Isaac asks where Rufus is, and Luisa says she’s been wondering the same thing. Eventually,... (full context)
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...up at the hotel and tries to get into Rufus’s room by pretending to be Megan. But all that the hotel management can do is give Luisa Rufus’s old letters, including... (full context)
Chapter 9
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...a subway. Napier says he’s taking Luisa to see someone who just flew in. 66. Megan Sixsmith (Rufus’s niece) just got into town from Hawaii. She and Luisa meet at a... (full context)
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...“Proud home of the Prophetess: Best-preserved schooner in the world.” At the art museum earlier, Megan gave Luisa a map that shows that the Starfish sits just a little past the... (full context)
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...that she’s famous. Finally, Luisa looks at her last item of mail: a package from Megan containing the eight remaining letters that Robert sent Rufus. (full context)