In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir

"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." €"John Grisham

"Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply moving." €"John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The 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 places€"the 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 €œa splendid writer,€ and In the Sanctuary of Outcasts €œa book that will endure.€