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Original Title:	Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
ISBN:	0385523386 (ISBN13: 9780385523387)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Piper Kerman, Larry, Nora Jansen, Pop
Setting:	Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Connecticut(United States) Federal Transfer Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma(United States) Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago, Illinois(United States)

Orange Is the New Black Hardcover | Pages: 298 pages

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Title	:	Orange Is the New Black
Author	:	Piper Kerman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 298 pages
Published	:	April 6th 2010 by Spiegel & Grau
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Audiobook

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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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This book was remarkably enjoyable to read. The writing is light and breezy, and its very well written, though not beautifully written; its a very straightforward account.Even though the author was so much more privileged than a typical women inmate, I got a good feel for not only her experiences but those of the even more unfortunate inmates.I learned a lot about life on the inside. One main thing is if youre a nice person and you treat others well and youre open to relationships with others,

SynopsisTen years ago, Piper Kerman made a mistake. She fell in love and became a criminal--transporting a suitcase of drug money across borders.  Now she has to pay the price:thirteen months imprisonment in a womens minimum security prison. This book is her memoirs from this time.My ThoughtsI came into this book expecting it to be like the TV show. I was pleasantly surprised when it wasnt.  It isnt an over the top or blatantly exaggerated or stereotyped version of what prison is like.  While

Quite a while ago now I watched the first two seasons of Orange is the New Black and found that while I liked most of the characters, I really didn't gel with the character Piper and I stopped watching the show. As a result, this book went from one I'd been considering reading to one I deliberately passed over. I didn't fancy a whole book of what I'd just watched and hadn't really enjoyed. I'm glad I did give it a go in the end, because I enjoyed the real Piper Kerman a lot more than the

Never judge a book by its television adaptation! Kermans prison memoir may lack the drama and the comedic banter that Netflix captured, but it is not worth tossing onto a never-read pile. It serves, as the show loosely does as well, to educate the public on some of the happenings within a womens federal prison in the United States. Telling the short story of how Kerman got into the predicament, some of the interesting characters she met inside, and her journey through the maze that saw her leave

What a shocker! A well-educated, upper class white woman goes to prison and builds strong bonds with her fellow inmates, who are mostly undereducated women of color from the wrong side of the tracks. I liked the book and I liked her. I did. But it irritates me that she seems to be marketing the book as this revealing story about how we're all just human after all. I didn't find her writing condescending of the other women. I found her to be non-judgmental and a truly good friend to everyone

Some people go into therapy, some become artists, others follow a spiritual path to find their true selves. Piper Kerman went to jail instead. Convicted of being a drug courier, a youthful folly she got into when she was enamored of the woman who got her involved with this, she was arrested 10 years after the incident and had to serve over a year in prison. However, she emerged a changed woman: she saw how she had wounded so many people by her recklessness and self-centeredness, saw what drugs

Wow. Did the makers of the show hone in on this book as a raw idea, then flesh it out to make the show? Because the show is freakin' GENIUS and...let's just say I am not picking up on genius from the book. It begins early on, when Piper lets us know that she wasted all those years in an elite university majoring in theater without any actual life goals in mind. And she doesn't seem embarrassed about this at all. She goes through prison acting like a whiny, spoiled, entitled, rich brat. And then