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The second life of Mirielle West : a novel Cover Image Book Book

The second life of Mirielle West : a novel

Skenandore, Amanda (author.).

Summary: Based on the true story of America's only leper colony, 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. For 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. 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.

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  • ISBN: 9781496726513 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: 376 pages ; 21 cm
    regular print
    print
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2021.
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    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 2 / 5.0

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General Note:
Includes discussion questions.

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Subject: Louisiana Leper Home -- Fiction
Leprosy -- Patients -- Social conditions -- Fiction
Leprosy -- Patients -- Treatment -- Fiction
Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
Socialites -- Fiction
Quarantine -- Louisiana -- Carville -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Medical fiction.
Novels.

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  • 2 current holds with 6 total copies.
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