
After her cousin Hadley dies (the final death), she discovers that her cousin had a son, Hunter, who shares Sookie's telepathic abilities.įor much of her story, Sookie lives alone in the home her grandmother raised her in and willed to her.

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. Her childhood is marred by the loss of her parents and sexual molestation suffered at the hands of her great-uncle.Īside from her grandmother and brother, Sookie has a cousin named Hadley, with whom she was close in their early years. For most of her life Sookie experiences her telepathy as a "disability" that isolates her from other people. 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. Sookie is a telepathic waitress from Louisiana who is in her mid-twenties at the beginning of the Southern Vampire Mysteries series. 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. Aside from her grandmother and brother, Sookie has a cousin named Hadley, with whom she was close in their early years.

Her childhood is marred by the loss of her parents and sexual molestation suffered at the hands of her great-uncle.

