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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: "The Second Life of Mirielle West" by Amanda Skenandore
DESCRIPTION:Based on the true story of America’s only leper colony\, The Second Life of Mirielle West brings vividly to life the Louisiana institution known as Carville\, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights\, branded as lepers\, and forcibly quarantined throughout the entire 20th century.\n\nFor Mirielle West\, a 1920’s socialite married to a silent film star\, the isolation and powerlessness of the Louisiana Leper Home is an unimaginable fall from her intoxicatingly chic life of bootlegged champagne and the star-studded parties of Hollywood’s Golden Age. When a doctor notices a pale patch of skin on her hand\, she’s immediately branded a leper and carted hundreds of miles from home to Carville\, taking a new name to spare her family and famous husband the shame that accompanies the disease.\n\nAt first she hopes her exile will be brief\, but those sent to Carville are more prisoners than patients and their disease has no cure. Instead she must find community and purpose within its walls\, struggling to redefine her self-worth while fighting an unchosen fate.\n\nFind the ebook or eaudiobook at stchlibrary.org
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