Book Signing at Main Street Books

Gulfport native, Neil White will sign In The Sanctuary of Outcasts. Sentenced to eighteen months in a federal prison for a white collar crime. Neil White finds himself imprisoned in an isolated colony in Carville, Louisiana with the last people in the continental United States disfigured by leprosy. White finds a new best friend in Ella Bounds, an eighty-year-old African American double amputee who had contracted leprosy as a child. She and the other secret people along with a wacky troop if inmates, help White rediscover the value of simplicity, friendship, and gratitude. Funny and poignant, In The Sanctuary of Outcasts is an uplifiting memoir that reminds us all what matters most. $25.99