Heather Lelache

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Heather Lelache is a character in The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin. She works at a law office and meets George Orr when he comes in for a consultation. She is African American in contrast to his Whiteness, which has some bearing on the book's Taoist themes.

"He liked her. He was a poor damn crazy psycho on drugs, he would like her. She liked him. She stuck out her brown hand, he met it with a white one, just like that damn button her mother always kept in the bottom of her bead box, SCNN or SNCC or something she'd belonged to way back in the middle of the last century, the Black hand and the White hand joined together. Christ!" -- The Lathe of Heaven, chapter 4