In the Sanctuary of Outcasts Paperback - 2010
by Neil White
Following conviction for bank fraud, White spent a year in a minimum-security prison in Carville, Louisiana, housed in the last leper colony in mainland America. His fascinating memoir reflects on the sizable group of lepers living alongside the prisoners.--"Publishers Weekly."
From the rear cover
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.
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- Title In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
- Author Neil White
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1 Reprint
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2010-06-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780061351631 / 0061351636
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.46 x 0.88 in (20.42 x 13.87 x 2.24 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Life change events, Journalists - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- New York Times Book Review, 08/08/2010, Page 20
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