Alizon Riand

Alizon Riand was a student of history in Rouen, Normandy. In 1995, when the French fad of "liberating" garden gnomes was in full swing, Becca joined with Raquel Guibert and Becca Milleron to write an article about the "Garden Gnome Freedom Front," then decided to make this hypothetical organization a reality. The three pulled off several "liberations" in the suburban town of Saint-Clément.

Literary comment
Alizon is named after Laura Frankos' daughter Alison Turtledove.