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June 2009 Indie Next List
“Mississippi wheeler-dealer Neil White, after years of snowballing financial deals and deceptions, finds himself assigned to a year in a Federal correction facility in Carville, Louisiana, home to the last people in the continental U.S. with Hansen's Disease -- better known as leprosy. From the unlikely combination of inmates and patients, White struggles to discover new values and to understand a little-known world.”
— Carolyn Chesser, Bayou Book Company, Niceville, FL
Winter 2011 Reading Group List
“Neil White's story is rare and unusual, and made all the better by his deft telling of the granting of absolution over the pain of loss, human frailty, and shattered dreams. In the end dreams do come true, and White's pain and laughter become moving and inspirational. This book belongs in the hands of all readers seeking to find how locked doors can be opened.”
— David Magee, Rock Point Books, Chattanooga, TN
Description
"A remarkable story of a young man's loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society's most dreaded outcasts." --John Grisham
"Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply moving." --John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The emotional, incredible true story of Neil White, a man who discovers the secret to happiness, leading a fulfilling life, and the importance of fatherhood in the most unlikely of places--the last leper colony in the continental United States. In the words of Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler (A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain), White is "a splendid writer," and In the Sanctuary of Outcasts "a book that will endure."