*Alternate cover edition located* *[here](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159497.The_Feast_of_All_Saints)* *and* *[here](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28487122.The_Feast_of_All_Saints)* *.* They were New Orleans’ gen de couleur libre – the copper-skinned half-castes who lived recklessly and loved passionately, trapped in a world between black and white. Marcel – the young, blue-eyed scholar, sensitive, and longing always for Paris. Marie – his breathtakingly beautiful sister, cursed with the ability to pass for white. Cristophe – novelist and teacher, the idol of all the young gens. Anna Bella – light in skin, African in feature, chosen for the white man. -from the back cover-