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Daddy is going to camp. That's what I told my children. A child psychologist suggested it. "Words like prison and jail conjure up dangerous images for children," she described. Nonetheless it wasn't camp.... Neil White, a journalist and newspaper publisher, needed the best for those he loved - nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to relatives and buddies, provided generously to his church, and invested in his community - but his bank account couldn't continue. Soon White started out moving money from one account to another to avoid bouncing assessments. His world fell apart when the FBI discovered his program and a judge sentenced him to provide 18 months in a federal prison. Nonetheless it was no regular prison. The beautiful, isolated colony in Carville, Louisiana, was also home to the previous people in the continental USA disfigured by leprosy. Invisible away for decades, this small group of outcasts possessed forged a tenacious, clandestine community, a fortress to repel the cruelty of the outside world. It is here, in a place rich with background, where in fact the Mississippi River briefly runs north, amid an improbable mixture of leprosy patients, nuns, and criminals, that White's strange and powerful journey starts. He finds a fresh best ally in Ella Bounds, an 80-year-old BLACK dual amputee who possessed contracted leprosy as a child. She and the other key people, plus a wacky troop of inmates, help White rediscover the worthiness of simplicity, companionship, and gratitude. Crazy and poignant, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts can be an uplifting memoir that reminds us all what counts most.
