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\n The glamorous world of a silent film star\u2019s wife abruptly crumbles when she\u2019s forcibly quarantined at the Carville Lepers Home in this page-turning story of courage, resilience, and reinvention set in 1920s Louisiana and Los Angeles. Based on little-known history, this timely book will strike a chord with readers of Fiona Davis, Tracey Lange, and Marie Benedict.<\/p>\n

* A 2023 Silicon Valley Reads Selection *
* Reader’s Digest Editor’s Choice *<\/p>\n

For Mirielle West, a 1920\u2019s 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\u2019s Golden Age. When a doctor notices a pale patch of skin on her hand, she\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

At 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.<\/p>\n

As a registered nurse, Amanda Skenandore\u2019s medical background adds layers of detail and authenticity to the experiences of patients and medical professionals at Carville \u2013 the isolation, stigma, experimental treatments, and disparate community. A tale of repulsion, resilience, and the Roaring \u201820s, The Second Life of Mirielle West is also the story of a health crisis in America\u2019s past, made all the more poignant by the author\u2019s experiences during another, all-too-recent crisis. <\/p>\n

\u201cScrupulous in her research and practically clairvoyant in her choice of urgent subjects \u2014 from the Indigenous boarding schools of her first novel to the disease and quarantine of The Second Life of Mirielle West \u2014 historical novelist Amanda Skenandore has quietly become one of the valley\u2019s finest authors.\u201d \u2013 The Las Vegas Review Journal

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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Kensington (July 27, 2021)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Paperback \u200f : \u200e 384 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 1496726510
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-1496726513
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 12.8 ounces
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.44 x 0.94 x 8.21 inches <\/p>\n

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