![]() Wiley spends a lot of time away from home as chef on a ship company called the Great Lakes Line. He is also Helene Sabat’s husband and Nel’s father. Wiley Wright is the great nephew of Cecile Sabat. The family lives in a nice house in the Bottom. She marries Wiley Wright and gives birth to daughter Nel after 9 years of marriage. Raised in a strictly religious home, Helene grows up to be authoritative and devout. She is taken away from her birth mother, Rochelle, a Creole prostitute, by her grandmother Cecile Sabat. Helene is born behind the red shutters at the Sundown House, a place of prostitution. After graduating from school, Nel marries Jude Greene. Nel is the daughter of Wiley and Helene Wright. On January 3 every year, in observance of National Suicide Day, he parades through the Bottom with a cowbell and lets everyone know that they may kill themselves or one another. He lives in a shack previously owned by his long deceased grandfather. ![]() A survivor of battle, Shadrack was hospitalized for over a year before he returned to the Bottom. Founder of National Suicide Day, Shadrack is a veteran of war. ![]()
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