Doris Baines ("Jared Hunt")
An elderly white missionary, whom Nettie and Samuel meet on their sojourn to England. She is accompanied by her "grandchild," Harold, a small black child.
Germaine
Shug's nineteen-year-old, blues flute playing, last-fling lover.
Stanley Earl
Eleanor Jane's husband.
James
Shug's son; a schoolteacher who lives on an Indian reservation; he is married to Cora Mae, and they have two children, Davis and Cantrell.
