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“Fascinating . . . The true subject of this unforgettable book is female bonding and the ties that even bars can’t unbind.” —People (four stars)
“I LOVED THIS BOOK. . . . It’s a story rich with humor, pathos, and redemption. What I did not expect from this memoir was the affection, compassion, and even reverence that Piper Kerman demonstrates for all the women she encountered while she was locked away in jail. This book is not just a tale of prisons, drugs, crime, or justice; it is, simply put, a beautifully told story about how incredible women can be, and I will never forget it.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times
bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love
“This book is impossible to put down because [Kerman] could be you. Or your best friend. Or your daughter.” —Los Angeles Times
“Moving . . . transcends the memoir genre’s usual self-centeredness to explore how human beings can always surprise you.”—USA Today
“It’s a compelling awakening, and a harrowing one—both for the reader and for Kerman.”—Newsweek.com --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
“I LOVED THIS BOOK. . . . It’s a story rich with humor, pathos, and redemption. What I did not expect from this memoir was the affection, compassion, and even reverence that Piper Kerman demonstrates for all the women she encountered while she was locked away in jail. This book is not just a tale of prisons, drugs, crime, or justice; it is, simply put, a beautifully told story about how incredible women can be, and I will never forget it.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times
bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love
“This book is impossible to put down because [Kerman] could be you. Or your best friend. Or your daughter.” —Los Angeles Times
“Moving . . . transcends the memoir genre’s usual self-centeredness to explore how human beings can always surprise you.”—USA Today
“It’s a compelling awakening, and a harrowing one—both for the reader and for Kerman.”—Newsweek.com --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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A compelling, often hilarious, and unfailingly compassionate portrait of life inside a women’s prison
When Piper Kerman was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she’d been when, shortly after graduating Smith College, she’d committed the misdeeds that would eventually catch up with her.Happily ensconced in a New York City apartment, with a promising career and an attentive boyfriend, she was suddenly forced to reckon with the consequences of her very brief, very careless dalliance in the world of drug trafficking.
Kerman spent thirteen months in prison, eleven of them at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, where she met a surprising and varied community of women living under exceptional circumstances. In Orange Is the New Black, Kerman tells the story of those long months locked up in a place with its own codes of behavior and arbitrary hierarchies, where a practical joke is as common as an unprovoked fight, and where the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailer is constantly and unpredictably recalibrated.
Revealing, moving, and enraging, Orange Is the New Black offers a unique perspective on the criminal justice system, the reasons we send so many people to prison, and what happens to them when they’re there.
When Piper Kerman was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she’d been when, shortly after graduating Smith College, she’d committed the misdeeds that would eventually catch up with her.Happily ensconced in a New York City apartment, with a promising career and an attentive boyfriend, she was suddenly forced to reckon with the consequences of her very brief, very careless dalliance in the world of drug trafficking.
Kerman spent thirteen months in prison, eleven of them at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, where she met a surprising and varied community of women living under exceptional circumstances. In Orange Is the New Black, Kerman tells the story of those long months locked up in a place with its own codes of behavior and arbitrary hierarchies, where a practical joke is as common as an unprovoked fight, and where the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailer is constantly and unpredictably recalibrated.
Revealing, moving, and enraging, Orange Is the New Black offers a unique perspective on the criminal justice system, the reasons we send so many people to prison, and what happens to them when they’re there.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's okay...,
By Bookluvr "Bookluvr" (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (Hardcover)
This is not my kind of book but my book club chose it so I decided to give it a try. A few chapters in I was tempted to stop reading - I didn't like the author and wasn't particularly empathetic to her ending up in prison. Nonetheless, I'm glad I persevered until the end. While I didn't love it, I did get more into the story as it developed. I found the descriptions of the other prisoners and their interactions interesting and it did give me some idea of life behind bars in a minimum security prison. The author's experience is not typical of the women in prison - she had lots of support from the 'outside' as well as a job waiting for her. It's a somewhat entertaining read - but I wouldn't rush to recommend it to my friends.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing and boring,
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This review is from: Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (Hardcover)
I'm disappointed in this book on many levels. I'm sorry I wasted money by giving it to this upper middle class princess. I'm also disappointed to find out that the rumours are true about these minimum security pseudo-country clubs that the taxpayers are funding.If you think you're going to read anything about the gritty life inside a prison, don't buy this book. She led a privileged life before prison and also during prison. How many times throughout the book did she remind us that she is the blond blue-eyed pretty little "typical" American girl and simply everyone she met in prison, convicts and guards alike, were stunned don't you know to see her inside a prison! Yeah, yeah, we get it, you're blond, you're pretty, you learned your lesson, blah, blah, blah. This is a pretty bland, boring, and self-centered account of (in my opinion) a very non-typical stay in a minimum security prison for drug running. The other prisoners were tripping over each other to be her friend, to give her things, to help her out, etc. How can she expect us to think that is typical. I'd like to see a book written by someone who goes through the system without the benefit of her looks, money, family and education. I think it would be much more interesting. I think what really hit home with me on her sense of self-importance was when she was outraged and in absolute disbelief that she wasn't allowed to get a pass to leave the prison because her grandmother was ill and dying. What a self-entitled attitude! This is prison, sweetie, not the girls' college you went to before in your younger days, even though you wrote about it like it WAS a girls' school. Give your head a shake. One small part of the book that actually made me laugh out loud and shake my head was this self-indulgent little paragraph: "Still I had to wonder, why had my need to transgress taken me so far, to a prison camp? Perhaps I was just dense, unable to understand these things from a distance but instead intent on scorching myself face to the fire, burning off my eyelashes. Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world? The vilest thing I had located, within myself and within the system that held me prisoner, was an indifference to the suffering of others. And when I understood how rotten I had been, what would I do with myself, now that I was revealed as wretched, not just in private but in public, in a court of law?" O-kay... I will definitely not be recommending this book to anyone. Don't trust the glowing write-up on the back of the book by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat, Pray, Love". If you've read her book, you'll recognize her as another totally self-centered upper middle class American girl-next-door. Of course she's going to say she loves this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good but not as I expected,
By RatUout (La La Land) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (Hardcover)
I found this book interesting but not worth my excitement before I got it. A few chapters were plain boring but still I got through it to the end.
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