Character from Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Mare's younger sister — a talented seamstress whose injured hand became a symbol of what the Red caste system costs ordinary people.
Gisa was the Barrow family's best hope before Mare — a skilled seamstress with an apprenticeship that could lift the family out of poverty. Her hand was injured during a protest, ending her career and adding to the family's desperation. The injury is a microcosm of the Red experience: one moment of political violence destroying years of careful, ordinary ambition. Her relationship with Mare improved after the initial resentment over the injury. By the series' end, they became genuinely close — bound by shared survival and the particular love of sisters who have both lost too much to hold grudges.
A young Red woman with the Barrow family's golden-brown skin and brown features. She had the precise, delicate hands of a trained seamstress before injury damaged them. She is smaller and quieter than Mare.