Sookie Stackhouse

[close] Sookie Stackhouse is the fictional protagonist and narrator of Charlaine Harris' The Southern Vampire Mysteries and the main character in HBO's television adaptation, True Blood.

Sookie is a telepathic waitress from Louisiana who is in her mid-twenties at the beginning of the Southern Vampire Mysteries series.
Orphaned at the age of seven after her parents died in a flash flood, Sookie and her brother Jason were raised by their paternal grandmother, Adele. For most of her life Sookie experiences her telepathy as a "disability" that isolates her from other people. Her childhood is marred by the loss of her parents and sexual molestation suffered at the hands of her great-uncle.
Aside from her grandmother and brother, Sookie has a cousin named Hadley, with whom she was close in their early years. Other family that play an important role in Sookie's life are her fairy great-grandfather, Niall Brigant, her fairy cousins, Claudine, Claude, and Claudette, and her uncle Dermot. After her cousin Hadley dies (the final death), she discovers that her cousin had a son, Hunter, who shares Sookie's telepathic abilities.
For much of her story, Sookie lives alone in the home her grandmother raised her in and willed to her. From time to time Sookie shares her home with various people, including Amelia Broadway and her fairy cousin Claude. Sookie's main source of income is her position as waitress at Merlotte's, a local bar owned by Sam Merlotte; however, Sookie is occasionally hired as a telepath by her supernatural acquaintances.
Although when we meet Sookie in the first novel "Dead Until Dark" she is not new to dating, she is new to sex, romance, and serious relationships. As a telepath, intimate relationships have often proved overwhelming to her because she is not always able to shield her mind from other people's thoughts. When she meets the vampire Bill Compton, she finds someone whose mind is unreadable enough to allow her to relax completely in his company.

(From Wikipedia)