689. Amanda Skenadore

689. We talk to Amanda Skenadore about her novel on the Carville Leprosy Colony, The Second Life of Mirielle West . Amanda Skenandore is a registered nurse turned historical fiction author whose medical background deeply shapes her storytelling. In her novel The Second Life of Mirielle West , she takes listeners into 1920s America to follow a Hollywood socialite whose life is upended when a…