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My Year in a Women's Prison
Spiegel & Grau
April 2010
On Sale: April 6, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 0385523386
EAN: 9780385523387
Kindle: B0036S4B6M
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Non-Fiction
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.
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