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Praise for The Leper Compound

"The Leper Compound will … remain with the reader long after the book has been closed." — Stuart Dybek, author of I Sailed with Magellan

"The Leper Compound interweaves the study of a historic moment with a lovely depiction of one African girl's development as affected by that moment." –San Francisco Chronicle

"…a beautiful and complex work." —Los Angeles Times

"The Leper Compound succeeds remarkably in giving a sense of how, during the last years of white rule in southern Africa, the daily experience of ordinary people was interfused with the larger historical drama." — J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate for Literature and author of Slow Man

"Nangle looks at the suffering body with a concentration that yields almost hallucinatory detail. What she writes is a stunning realism like no one else's, explosively quiet, painful, and beautiful." — Jaimy Gordon, author of Bogeywoman