{"product_id":"the-second-life-of-mirielle-west-by-amanda-skenandore-9781496726513","title":"The Second Life of Mirielle West","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe glamorous world of a silent film star's wife abruptly crumbles when she is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA 2023 Silicon Valley Reads Selection\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eReader's Digest Editor's Choice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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 Hollywood's Golden Age. When a doctor notices a pale patch of skin on her hand, she is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a registered nurse, Amanda Skenandore's 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Second Life of Mirielle West\u003c\/em\u003e is also the story of a health crisis in America's past, made all the more poignant by the author's experiences during another, all-too-recent crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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 \u003cem\u003eThe Second Life of Mirielle West\u003c\/em\u003e - historical novelist Amanda Skenandore has quietly become one of the valley's finest authors.\" - The Las Vegas Review Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643399553260,"sku":"9781496726513","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9d92f6aa873970028d4990341a8005a3.jpg?v=1779227484","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-second-life-of-mirielle-west-by-amanda-skenandore-9781496726513","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}