"Book synopsis
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 8212John Grisham Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply moving 8212John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and EvilThe 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 places8212the 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 8220a splendid writer,8221 and In the Sanctuary of Outcasts 8220a book that will endure8221
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