Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

Contributor(s): Kerman, Piper (Author)
ISBN: 0385523394 EAN: 9780385523394
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
US SRP: $16.00 US
Binding: Paperback: 327 pages
Pub Date: March 08, 2011

Annotation: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her.

Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187–424 one of the millions of people who disappear “down the rabbit hole” of the American penal system.

From her first strip search to her final release, Kerman learns to navigate this strange world with its strictly enforced codes of behavior and arbitrary rules.

She meets women from all walks of life, who surprise her with small tokens of generosity, hard words of wisdom, and simple acts of acceptance.

Heartbreaking, hilarious, and at times enraging, Kerman’s story offers a rare look into the lives of women in prison why it is we lock so many away and what happens to them when they’re there.

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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Social Science | Penology
- Biography & Autobiography | Women