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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| John | John is the teenage stepson of a Harlem preacher struggling with his own spiritual dilemmas. Read More |
| Gabriel | Gabriel is the domineering head of the Grimes family who demands spiritual perfection from everyone. Read More |
| Elizabeth | Elizabeth is John's kindhearted mother who tries to love and encourage her children. Read More |
| Florence | Florence is Gabriel's bitter and resentful sister who tried and failed to make a better life for herself. Read More |
| Deborah | Deborah is Gabriel's first wife, who survives a brutal sexual assault by devoting herself to the church. She is already deceased when the novel opens. |
| Elisha | Elisha is John's friend and Sunday School teacher who is a role model and point of fascination for John. |
| Ella Mae | Ella Mae is a girl at church who is a brief love interest for Elisha, until they are shamed into avoiding sinful ways. |
| Esther | Esther is a woman Gabriel has an affair with in the South. She dies giving birth to their son. |
| Rachel | Rachel is Gabriel and Florence's mother, a former slave whose life has been marked by both suffering and unwavering faith. |
| Richard | Richard is Elizabeth's first love who takes her to New York from Maryland and fathers John before he is unjustly accused of a crime and commits suicide. |
| Roy | Roy is John's headstrong and rebellious younger half-brother who takes after his father's early instincts for sinful behavior. |
| Royal | Royal is Gabriel's illegitimate son with Esther, raised by his grandparents and killed in a bar fight as a young man. |
| Ruth | Ruth is John's baby half-sister. |
| Sarah | Sarah is John's younger half-sister. |
| Sister McCandless | Sister McCandless is one of the "saints" in the Temple of the Fire Baptized. |
| Sister Price | Sister Price is one of the "saints" in the Temple of the Fire Baptized. |
| Praying Mother Washington | Praying Mother Washington is Ella Mae's grandmother, a respected figure in the church. |
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