A Place Without Twilight is a 1958 novel by Peter S. Feibleman that follows Cille, a young girl of mixed-race heritage, and her family in New Orleans during the 1930s and 1940s. Cille and her brothers find themselves caught in a rigid world defined by the era’s racial and class divisions. The story is told from the perspective of Cille, whose light-skinned family falls into a “non-color” category in a place where people are expected to be either Black or white. The plot revolves around the family’s struggle for identity and survival in this discriminatory environment.
