Helpful Score: 2
Good read. White's autobiographical morality tale offers an educational look at the last 100 years of leprosy in this country through his sentencing for a white collar crime to the prison adjacent to a Leper Colony on the Louisiana-Mississippi border. Well written intertwining of a Southern boy's come uppance after he tried too hard to keep up an impression of success along with the story of our society's treatment of lepers.
Helpful Score: 2
Interesting, but I could feel the author's ulterior motive all through the book - use prison time to write book make money. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
Helpful Score: 1
A remarkable, true story about a young man's loss of everything he deemed important and his discovery as to what matters most. His description of the isolated colony in Carville, Louisiana and the people that lived there were interesting. It was a piece of history that I did not know existed in the United States. I knew and studied the colony for people disfigured by leprosy on Molokai, Hawaii but the Carville colony was actually in the continental US.
