In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
Language: English
Biography & Autobiography Criminals & Outlaws Editors General Infectious Diseases Journalists Journalists - United States Language Arts & Disciplines Leprosy Leprosy - Patients - United States Life change events Medical National Hansen's Disease Programs (U.S.) Neil Personal Memoirs Prisoners Prisoners - Louisiana - Carville Publishers Publishers and publishing Publishers and publishing - United States Publishing White
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: May 15, 2010
Description:
Daddy is going to camp. That's what I told my children. But it wasn't camp. . . . Neil White wanted only the best for those he loved and was willing to go to any lengths to provide it—which is how he ended up in a federal prison in rural Louisiana, serving eighteen months for bank fraud. But it was no ordinary prison. The beautiful, isolated colony in Carville, Louisiana, was also home to the last people in the continental United States disfigured by leprosy—a small circle of outcasts who had forged a tenacious, clandestine community, a fortress to repel the cruelty of the outside world. In this place rich with history, amid an unlikely mix of leprosy patients, nuns, and criminals, White's strange and compelling new life journey began. An extraordinary memoir at once funny, poignant, and uplifting, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts reminds us all what matters most.