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Description: The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore The glamorous world of a silent film stars wife abruptly crumbles when shes 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.* A 2023 Silicon Valley Reads Selection ** Readers Digest Editors Choice *The glamorous world of a silent film stars wife abruptly crumbles when shes 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.* A 2023 Silicon Valley Reads Selection ** Readers Digest Editors Choice *For Mirielle West, a 1920s 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 Hollywoods Golden Age. When a doctor notices a pale patch of skin on her hand, shes 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.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.As a registered nurse, Amanda Skenandores medical background adds layers of detail and authenticity to the experiences of patients and medical professionals at Carville - the isolation, stigma, experimental treatments, and disparate community. A tale of repulsion, resilience, and the Roaring 20s, The Second Life of Mirielle West is also the story of a health crisis in Americas past, made all the more poignant by the authors experiences during another, all-too-recent crisis."Scrupulous in her research and practically clairvoyant in her choice of urgent subjects - from the Indigenous boarding schools of her first novel to the disease and quarantine of The Second Life of Mirielle West - historical novelist Amanda Skenandore has quietly become one of the valleys finest authors." - The Las Vegas Review Journal FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Amanda Skenandore is a historical fiction writer and registered nurse. Her debut novel, Between Earth and Sky, was the winner of the American Library Associations RUSA Reading List for Best Historical Fiction Novel of the Year. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. Visit Amanda Skenandore online at AmandaSkenandore.com. Review Praise for The Second Life of Mirielle West"Scrupulous in her research and practically clairvoyant in her choice of urgent subjects — from the Indigenous boarding schools of her first novel to the disease and quarantine of The Second Life of Mirielle West — historical novelist Amanda Skenandore has quietly become one of the valleys finest authors." —The Las Vegas Review Journal "Despite being a fictional work, in her book The Second Life of Mirielle West Amanda Skenandore has used her medical background as a registered nurse—and her storytelling skills as a writer—to describe the sorrows experienced by patients with leprosy who were quarantined at the Carville Leper Home, a hospital in Louisiana that used to provide quarantine and treatment services for leprosy in the USA throughout the 20th century." —The Lancet Review Quote Praise for The Second Life of Mirielle West "Scrupulous in her research and practically clairvoyant in her choice of urgent subjects -- from the Indigenous boarding schools of her first novel to the disease and quarantine of The Second Life of Mirielle West -- historical novelist Amanda Skenandore has quietly become one of the valleys finest authors." --The Las Vegas Review Journal "Despite being a fictional work, in her book The Second Life of Mirielle West Amanda Skenandore has used her medical background as a registered nurse--and her storytelling skills as a writer--to describe the sorrows experienced by patients with leprosy who were quarantined at the Carville Leper Home, a hospital in Louisiana that used to provide quarantine and treatment services for leprosy in the USA throughout the 20th century." --The Lancet Details ISBN1496726510 Author Amanda Skenandore Pages 304 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1496726510 ISBN-13 9781496726513 Format Paperback Publisher Kensington Publishing Imprint Kensington Publishing Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-07-27 NZ Release Date 2021-07-27 US Release Date 2021-07-27 Publication Date 2021-07-27 UK Release Date 2021-07-27 Subtitle A Haunting Historical Novel Perfect for Book Clubs DEWEY 813.6 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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