~ Trade Paperback

~ New Release - 2021

A thought-provoking and sensitive novel, inspired by the little-known but true story of a Louisiana leprosy hospital where patients were forcibly quarantined, The Second Life of Mirielle West tells an extraordinarily timely tale of resilience, hope, and the last woman who expected to find herself in such a place. 

Set in 1920s Louisiana and Los Angeles, The Second Life of Mirielle West explores the glamourous world of a silent film star's wife as it abruptly crumbles when she is forcibly quarantined at the Carville Lepers Home.  

“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 The Second Life of Mirielle West) historical novelist Amanda Skenandore has quietly become one of the valley’s finest authors.” -- The Las Vegas Review Journal